[maemo-developers] extras-assistant trouble

[From: b0unc3]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Ed Bartosh <bartosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/7/8 b0unc3 <b0unc3 at email.it>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm the developer of wizard-mounter
> > (https://garage.maemo.org/projects/wizard-mounter) and I have a problem
> with
> > the extras-assistant.
> > I build my own .deb in my sdk and it works fine, also the installation is
> > correct (as you can check by downloading the .deb directly from the
> browser
> > or you can try to build it yourself through svn in diablo-trunk/ ). When
> I
> > upload the .tar.gz and other files to the extras-assistant that, I
> suppose,
> > will automatically generate the deb but it result incorrect : the
> > installation works quite fine but it never show the entry in the
> menu-list
> > because the .desktop and .service files are placed alone in /.
> > I'm wondering why of this strange behavior and what I'm doing wrong since
> > the extras-assistant output is OK.
> > In my sdk I simply run dpkg-build -rfakeroot to build the .deb and other
> > files.
> > What do extras-assistant exactly to build the .deb ?
> First of all it's autobuilder, not assistant. Extras assistent is a
> web interface to building system and repositories.


My mistake, sorry.

>
> Autobuilder builds packages 'right way'. It starts from clean
> scratchbox target, install basic build system(gcc, glibc and small
> amount of other packages), then installs build dependencies and bulds
> the package using dpkg-buildpackage.
> The main difference from usual developer builds is that in developer
> environment there are already tons of installed packages(most of them
> are not needed for your build) and dirty filesystem. By dirty I mean
> that there are a lot of files in there that don't belong to any
> package, but can influence on build results. Each time you do make
> install you put those on your filesystem. Very often they forgotten
> after that.
>
> Now to the business. The reason of above issue is most probably in
> your Makefile*. To check it our you can simply delete everything from
> debian/wizard-mounter and run 'make install
> DESTDIR=debian/wizard-mounter. You will most probably see your
> .desktop and .service files in debian/wizard-mounter instead of
> debian/wizard-mounter/usr/share/...
>

I just tried it , but everything in the destdir is at his right place.

>
>
> --
> BR,
> Ed
>
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