> hi andreas,
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 08:10:14PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>>the spec file equivalent would be a ./debian subdirectory, and possibly
>>>patches to the source (though our custom with the current nagios
>>>packages is to have the diffs embedded in ./debian).
>>
>>Oh. I thought it was something along the lines of a rpm .spec file. Do
>>you mean dpkg doesn't have specifications at all?
>
>
> what i was getting at is that debian doesn't use a single monolithic
> file like the rpm "spec file" format. there's an entire subdirectory that
> includes something kind of like a spec file (debian/rules) as well as many
> helper files, patches, copyright info, and other debian-specific stuff.
>
This is exactly how RPM spec-files work as well. Try rpm -qpl
some.src.rpm and you'll see what I mean.
> with the way we've packaged nagios, everything you need to build a deb
> is in this directory, though some other packages rely on an external
> diff. so, you could check out a copy of the ./debian from our alioth
> cvs repository, but like i said, i think it's inviting unnecessary
> duplication of effort.
>
Nah. The rules file should be sufficient. It should be a great help when
debian users start asking for the location of their configuration files
on the list.
>
>>nagios-statd is obsolete and shouldn't really be distributed by a
>>dependency-handling package managing system.
>
>
> fair enough. i'm not familiar with the package, but it came up with
> the rest of the results from "apt-cache search nagios"
>
Oh. Haven't tried that one, but it seems nice. I'll have to write
something similar for RPM, methinks.
--
Andreas Ericsson [email protected]
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Lead Developer
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