Re: bundles of packages are not allowed

[Bertrand Roessli]

Hello,

I have this description file


Name: Mufit
Version: 3.4
Date: 2009-06-21
Author: Bertrand Roessli <address@hidden>
Maintainer: Bertrand Roessli
Title: Mufit
Description: Neutron single-crystal diffraction toolkit
Depends: octave (>= 3.0.0)
License: GPL version 2 or later


and this directory structure (that contains subdirectories
e.g. /inst/mufit, /inst/src, /inst/vrml)

rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   679 2009-07-02 11:59 WARRANTY   
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli 17983 2009-07-02 11:59 COPYING
-rwxr-xr-x 1 broessli broessli    75 2009-07-23 11:20 configure  
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli  4035 2009-07-23 11:24 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   764 2009-07-23 11:28 INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   250 2009-07-23 12:11 DESCRIPTION
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   300 2009-07-28 08:17 NEWS
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   659 2009-07-28 08:19 INDEX

examples:
total 48
-rw------- 1 broessli broessli 18054 2009-07-02 11:59 nuc.inp
-rw------- 1 broessli broessli 12551 2009-07-02 11:59 crys.inp
-rw------- 1 broessli broessli 11971 2009-07-20 10:32 mag.inp

src:
total 36
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli 17012 2009-07-02 11:59 samin.cc   
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   444 2009-07-02 11:59 embedded.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli  5312 2009-07-03 12:11 __polmat.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   102 2009-07-23 11:25 Makefile

inst:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 broessli broessli 4096 2009-07-25 16:36 vrml
drwxr-xr-x 2 broessli broessli 4096 2009-07-25 16:36 misc
drwxr-xr-x 2 broessli broessli 4096 2009-07-27 14:02 mufit

total 724
-rw------- 1 broessli broessli  54749 2009-07-02 11:59 mufit.tex
-rw------- 1 broessli broessli 133480 2009-07-02 11:59 mufit.pdf
-rw------- 1 broessli broessli   6306 2009-07-02 11:59 mufit.log
-rw------- 1 broessli broessli  63140 2009-07-02 11:59 mufit.dvi
-rw------- 1 broessli broessli    943 2009-07-02 11:59 mufit.aux
-rw------- 1 broessli broessli   2866 2009-07-20 07:12 mufit.texi
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   1354 2009-07-20 07:12 info.texi 
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli     89 2009-07-20 07:12 manual.m  
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli  20543 2009-07-21 15:44 annexe.texi
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   3234 2009-07-24 11:53 manual.texi
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli      0 2009-07-24 14:40 manual.ltx 
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   2120 2009-07-24 14:41 introduction.texi
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli  92072 2009-07-24 14:41 manual.dvi
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   1293 2009-07-25 15:46
magneticstructures.texi
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   3232 2009-07-25 15:56 fitroutines.texi
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   1130 2009-07-27 14:02 draw.texi
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   4618 2009-07-28 07:51
nuclearstructure.texi
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   4696 2009-07-28 08:12 polarimetry.texi
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli  40778 2009-07-28 08:12 Mufit Manual
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli      0 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.vr   
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli      0 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.tp   
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli      0 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.pg   
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli      0 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.ky   
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   2216 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.fns  
-rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli    540 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.cps  

Does it mean that it is not allowed to have subdirectories in /inst?

Thanks,

Bertrand

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 08:49 +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> tir, 28 07 2009 kl. 08:26 +0200, skrev Bertrand Roessli:
> > I am trying to make an octave package 
> > but I get this error
> > 
> > "bundles of packages are not allowed" 
> > and I cannot guess what it means. 
> > 
> > Does anybody know? 
> 
> It's hard to tell from the little information you provided. I'm guessing
> that you didn't follow the right directory structure or you didn't
> provide a DESCRIPTION file.
> 
> Søren
>