[maemo-developers] dpkg: serious warning: files list .......

[From: Visti Andresen]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:04:34 +0200
Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 09:18:34PM +0100, Visti Andresen wrote:
> > Hi, I succeeded in building my first .deb package.
> > I created the control file and friends manually, I looked at the source of maemopadplus for "inspiration".
> > 
> > Using the "Application manager" the package installs and uninstalls without any problems.
> > But when I use dpkg I get the following message:
> > 
> > dpkg -i n770-fire_0.1_armel.deb 
> > Selecting previously deselected package n770-fire.
> > (Reading database ... 
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `armel' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> 
> That's not good.
Serious warnings seldom are...

> 
> > 12900 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking n770-fire (from n770-fire_0.1_armel.deb) ...
> > Setting up n770-fire (0.1) ...
> > 
> > 
> > "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" creates a debian/files file containing:
> > n770-fire_1.2_armel.deb user/games optional
> 
> That's not good either.
Any idea what this file should contain?
And how make it contain the proper content, as it seem to be auto generated.

> 
> > I was wondering if anyone knows which newbie mistake I made?
> 
> We can't tell without looking at your source code (especially the
> debian/ directory).

Ups probably should have written this yesterday: 
Sources are available though "svn checkout https://garage.maemo.org/svn/n770demos"

The debian directory is located under packages/fire/

I use a rather non standard build system (buildpp.pl)
And I additionally have to build multiple packages from the same set of sources...


> 
> Marius Gedminas
> -- 
> Never trust a smiling Gates.