syn.theti.ca » packaging http://syn.theti.ca debian, eeepc, kids & f/oss software Tue, 25 May 2010 11:50:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Plumbing the depths of cdbs http://syn.theti.ca/2006/07/27/plumbing-the-depths-of-cdbs/ http://syn.theti.ca/2006/07/27/plumbing-the-depths-of-cdbs/#comments Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:05:00 +0000 Ben Armstrong On #debian-games we were discussing today how opaque cdbs is for those who aren’t intimately acquainted with its inner workings. I want to be able to easily see, at least at the level of detail visible in a purely debhelper-based rules file, what’s going on inside just by running make itself, e.g.

debian/rules -p | grep -v ^# | grep -B1 dh_

Here’s a small excerpt of the output when run on ri-li:

binary-install/ri-li::
        dh_installdocs -p$(cdbs_curpkg) $(DEB_INSTALL_DOCS_ALL) $(DEB_INSTALL_DOCS_$(cdbs_curpkg))
        dh_installexamples -p$(cdbs_curpkg) $(DEB_INSTALL_EXAMPLES_$(cdbs_curpkg))
        dh_installman -p$(cdbs_curpkg) $(DEB_INSTALL_MANPAGES_$(cdbs_curpkg))
        dh_installinfo -p$(cdbs_curpkg) $(DEB_INSTALL_INFO_$(cdbs_curpkg))
        dh_installmenu -p$(cdbs_curpkg) $(DEB_DH_INSTALL_MENU_ARGS)
        dh_installcron -p$(cdbs_curpkg) $(DEB_DH_INSTALL_CRON_ARGS)
...

OK, it’s a bit crude and misses a lot of interesting details, but it is a starting point that can be tweaked to zero in on whatever parts interest you.

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