[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] dpkg blues

[From: Jussi Kukkonen]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 22:58 -0500, Vladislav Grinchenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to build arm debian package of libsigc++ installable
> on nokia 770. dpkg-buildpackage builds it just fine:
...
> However, in order for me to use AppInstaller, I have to make it
> dependable on pseudo-package maemo:
---
> However, installing it both on 770 and in scratchbox SDK_ARM fails
> bitterly:
...
> Can someone explain to me why I get this error?
> 
> 	failed to chroot to `/var/lib/install'
> 

It's been two weeks, but in case you're still wondering about this:

You probably have maintainer scripts (eg. prerm, postinst) in your
package. Those are not allowed with app-installer-tool, and may prevent
the package from being correctly installed and uninstalled. 

There is a separate how-to about packaging:
http://maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_making_an_application_package.html

HTH,

-- 
Jussi Kukkonen