[Gambas-devel] Re: Debian stuff

[José L. Redrejo Rodríguez]

El dom, 19-09-2004 a las 16:06, Benoit Minisini escribió:

> > > Ask me every question you need! But I think we should stay on the=20
> > > mailing-list, because what we say can interest other people.
> >
> > I also want to fix the debian packages creation from gambas ide (Project
> > ->Make installation Package) that doesn't work at all. Tell me if
> > somebody has already begun to do that work, and if you think I will have
> > time enough to do it before the 1.0 release.
> 
> What are the problems exactly ?

Well, it tries to make Mandrake packages when you select to make Debian
packages. As an example, I have tried to package the DataReportExample
included in gambas. This is the log that appears in the packaging
window:

#############################
Creating package for Debian.
Initializing ~/RPM directory.
Creating source package.
Creating .spec file.
Creating RPM packages.
The package build has failed.

Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /home/jose/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.58208 + umask
022 + cd /home/jose/RPM/BUILD + rm -rf
/home/jose/RPM/tmp/datareportexample-buildroot + cd /home/jose/RPM/BUILD
+ rm -rf DataReportExample + /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc
/home/jose/RPM/SOURCES/datareportexample-0.0.tar.bz2 + tar -xf - +
STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cd DataReportExample + exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /home/jose/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.58208 + umask
022 + cd /home/jose/RPM/BUILD + cd DataReportExample + /usr/bin/gbc -a
-p OK + gba +


############################

And after that a message saying that "The package build has failed"
In the terminal where I open gambas from, I can see many more messages:
##########################################
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /home/jose/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.58208
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/jose/RPM/BUILD
+ rm -rf /home/jose/RPM/tmp/datareportexample-buildroot
+ cd /home/jose/RPM/BUILD
+ rm -rf DataReportExample
+ /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc
/home/jose/RPM/SOURCES/datareportexample-0.0.tar.bz2
+ tar -xf -
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd DataReportExample
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /home/jose/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.58208
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/jose/RPM/BUILD
+ cd DataReportExample
+ /usr/bin/gbc -a -p
OK
+ gba
+ exit 0
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /home/jose/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.58208
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/jose/RPM/BUILD
+ cd DataReportExample
+ install -d /home/jose/RPM/tmp/datareportexample-buildroot/usr/bin
+ install -p DataReportExample
/home/jose/RPM/tmp/datareportexample-buildroot/us
r/bin/datareportexample
+ install -d
/home/jose/RPM/tmp/datareportexample-buildroot//usr/share/pixmaps
+ install -p .icon/32.png
/home/jose/RPM/tmp/datareportexample-buildroot//usr/sh
are/pixmaps/datareportexample.png
+ install -d
/home/jose/RPM/tmp/datareportexample-buildroot//usr/lib/menu
+ cat
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note
Processing files: datareportexample-0.0-1
error: File not found:
/home/jose/RPM/tmp/datareportexample-buildroot/usr/share/
menu/datareportexample
Requires: gambas-runtime >= 0.95 gambas-runtime <= 1.0 gambas-gb-db >=
0.95 gamb as-gb-db <= 1.0 gambas-gb-qt >= 0.95 gambas-gb-qt <= 1.0
gambas-gb-qt-ext >= 0.9 5 gambas-gb-qt-ext <= 1.0 gambas-gb-qt-kde >=
0.95 gambas-gb-qt-kde <= 1.0 gamba s-gb-qt-kde-html >= 0.95
gambas-gb-qt-kde-html <= 1.0


RPM build errors:
    File not found:
/home/jose/RPM/tmp/datareportexample-buildroot/usr/share/men
u/datareportexample
###########################################

More information: I asked gambas to build the packages in a directory
called /home/jose/instal, but it  uses /home/jose/RPM. On the other
hand, this is not the structure for Debian packages. I haven't tested
this feature in previous versions of gambas, so I don't know if this is
a new bug  or Debian packages have never been done. I don't know too
much about RPM packaging, but looking at Package.module in gambas
sources it looks quite different of what deb packages need to be built.

I have seen that you try to build debian packages using alien after
generating rpm packages, but this uses to fail because  all the tools to
build a rpm package are  needed. Those tools are not installed in a
debian system by default (debian rpm package exists and it has most of
them as brp-compress, brp-..., but they are not enough as I see) , so
maybe it would be easy to build debian packages in a Mandrake box, but
not in a Debian box, what makes not too much sense.
Reading the above logs I can also check two things more: the name of the
standard debian packages has to be those you put in Mandrake (no problem
with that, I have also finished them) and the 
/home/jose/RPM/tmp/datareportexample-buildroot/usr/share/menu directory
hasn't been created, I haven't been able to find how or where it should
have been created.

I hope this will help to find out the problem. 
Regards.