[maemo-developers] Packaging Libraries

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 02:13:57PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> The best way to go about it might be to first pull down your source  
> package from upstream. Upstream is usually debian and that is easy to  
> do if you are on a debian, or even debian-like, machine:
> 
> 	`apt-get source libyou-want-to-port`
> 
> Once that is done, you'll find that you have an original tarball  
> (named usually libyou-want-to-port.orig.tar.gz) a diff tarball, a  
> description file ending in .dsc, and the source package dir. The  
> source package dir, i.e. "libyou-want-to-port/" should contain a  
> debian dir underneath. You can drop in there, change the maintainer  
> name to yours, note the dependencies, add that you are maemoifying it  
> to the changelog, and then build. Building is usually done in the  
> "libyou-want-to-port/" dir like this;
> 
> 	`dpkg-buildpackage -D rfakeroot`

That should be dpkg-buildpackage -D -rfakeroot.  Or you can omit the -D,
since it's enabled by default anyway.

> You want to do this in scratchbox of course since that is where the  
> device's dependencies are kept, they should be identical to the  
> device. Once this building is done, you should get a .deb and .changes  
> file. The deb is now the binary archive you can use to install your  
> lib. You can test this on the device and you can also follow the  
> instructions on the maemo wiki on how to upload your resulting build.
> 
> Of course, this all is a bit of a gloss, there may be issues, like  
> other dependencies not yet solved, and/or versions that are out of  
> sync, etc. But once you start this process, feel free to fire off  
> questions to this list or on IRC #maemo with error messages and you  
> should find that there are often people who will help you. I certainly  
> will, but there are others as well who are very knowledgeable about  
> the platform.

There's also MUD Builder which attempts to automate most of the
downloading-from-debian-patching-and-rebuilding steps:
http://mud-builder.garage.maemo.org/

Marius Gedminas
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