Re: doc installation on debian - special?

[Jeff Bailey]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 01:15:04PM -0500, Sam Roberts wrote:

> I've modified mailutils.info to specify sections, see my ChangeLog
> for last night. That's why I was confused, make install wasn't
> adding my entries to /usr/local/info/dir.

Cool.  I'll take a look at this shortly, and maybe do an upload today.
(If not, I'll do it for tommorow's run).

> It's not critical, I did it manually, and I guess your debian
> spec file takes care of this if you do a real debian package?

If you ask it to. =)

> Btw, if it's easy, could you give me the 2 minute "you've got
> mailutils source on a debian system, here's how to build and install
> it as a real debian package". Or am I better off just running the
> install target?

With just the mailutils source, it's not terribly easy, but the Best
Way (tm) to do it is:

apt-get build-dep mailutils
apt-get source mailutils

I've done a special type of package where I include a source tar ball
(the result of running `make release' in the mailutils source).
Replace it here, and also modify debian/rules to point to the new
source.

The last step is to update debian/changelog with an entry for the new
version, and then run `debuild' (provided by devscripts, worth
installing if you don't have them)

Note that if you want to do development inside the mailutils tree for
debian that you have the problem that it removes the source code and
unpacks again for the build.  If you want to do that, let me know and
I'll expand this mini-tutorial. =)

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