Hi,

I am upgrading one of my packages (iraf) to a new version. The new
version comes with a "make install", which installs everything under /usr/lib/iraf/ (and some other places).

The "iraf" source package needs to divide these files into user related
files (for the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" packages) and development related
files (for "iraf-dev" and "iraf-noao-dev"). The problem is now, that the division is (mainly) by extension:

- *.cl, *.hd, *.men, *.par (... and some other extensions) should go to
the user packages

- *.a, *.h should go to the development packages

(the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" package differ mainly by that "iraf"
collects them in the pkg/ subdir, and "iraf-noao" in the noao subdir).

The main question here is: how can I do a dh_install selective by file
suffix? Otherwise, I would need to list the (~1000) files in the
"install" files, which is not very robust.

Cheers

Ole

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Hi again,

I think youe way could be to put the file list into a variable in
d/rules, and expand the list the .install, like:

---------- debian/iraf.install -----------------------------
etc/iraf/
usr/lib/iraf/bin/ecl.e
[... other fixed content]
${env:IRAF_FILES}
----------------------------8<------------------------------

----------- debian/rules -----------------------------------

override_dh_install:
IRAF_FILES=$$(cd debian/tmp; \
find usr/lib/iraf/pkg usr/lib/iraf/unix/hlib \
-name \*.hlp \
-o -name \*.hd \
[...] \
-o -name \*.fits) \
dh_install

----------------------------8<------------------------------

where the same procedure however would required for all four binary
packages. This does not look very nice, and also according to the
debhelper manpage, one can only expand to 4096 chars (I'd need ~40,000).

Any better idea?

Best

Ole


On 15.07.23 21:01, Ole Streicher wrote:

Hi,

I am upgrading one of my packages (iraf) to a new version. The new
version comes with a "make install", which installs everything under /usr/lib/iraf/ (and some other places).

The "iraf" source package needs to divide these files into user related
files (for the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" packages) and development related
files (for "iraf-dev" and "iraf-noao-dev"). The problem is now, that the division is (mainly) by extension:

- *.cl, *.hd, *.men, *.par (... and some other extensions) should go to
  the user packages

- *.a, *.h should go to the development packages

(the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" package differ mainly by that "iraf"
collects them in the pkg/ subdir, and "iraf-noao" in the noao subdir).

The main question here is: how can I do a dh_install selective by file suffix? Otherwise, I would need to list the (~1000) files in the
"install" files, which is not very robust.

Cheers

Ole

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On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 09:01:19PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:

Hi,

I am upgrading one of my packages (iraf) to a new version. The new version comes with a "make install", which installs everything under /usr/lib/iraf/ (and some other places).

The "iraf" source package needs to divide these files into user related
files (for the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" packages) and development related
files (for "iraf-dev" and "iraf-noao-dev"). The problem is now, that the division is (mainly) by extension:

- *.cl, *.hd, *.men, *.par (... and some other extensions) should go to
the user packages

- *.a, *.h should go to the development packages

(the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" package differ mainly by that "iraf" collects them in the pkg/ subdir, and "iraf-noao" in the noao subdir).

The main question here is: how can I do a dh_install selective by file suffix? Otherwise, I would need to list the (~1000) files in the "install" files, which is not very robust.

You can always skip dh_install and do manual cp/mv/install/whatever
commands in override_dh_install.
Or you could probably use dh-exec.

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Ole Streicher:

Hi again,

I think youe way could be to put the file list into a variable in
d/rules, and expand the list the .install, like:

---------- debian/iraf.install -----------------------------
etc/iraf/
usr/lib/iraf/bin/ecl.e
[... other fixed content]
${env:IRAF_FILES} ----------------------------8<------------------------------

----------- debian/rules -----------------------------------

override_dh_install:
    IRAF_FILES=$$(cd debian/tmp; \
            find usr/lib/iraf/pkg usr/lib/iraf/unix/hlib \
             -name \*.hlp \
          -o -name \*.hd \
          [...] \
          -o -name \*.fits) \
        dh_install

----------------------------8<------------------------------

where the same procedure however would required for all four binary
packages. This does not look very nice, and also according to the
debhelper manpage, one can only expand to 4096 chars (I'd need ~40,000).

Any better idea?

Best

Ole

On 15.07.23 21:01, Ole Streicher wrote:

Hi,

I am upgrading one of my packages (iraf) to a new version. The new
version comes with a "make install", which installs everything under
/usr/lib/iraf/ (and some other places).

The "iraf" source package needs to divide these files into user
related files (for the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" packages) and
development related files (for "iraf-dev" and "iraf-noao-dev"). The
problem is now, that the division is (mainly) by extension:

- *.cl, *.hd, *.men, *.par (... and some other extensions) should go to
   the user packages

- *.a, *.h should go to the development packages

(the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" package differ mainly by that "iraf"
collects them in the pkg/ subdir, and "iraf-noao" in the noao subdir).

The main question here is: how can I do a dh_install selective by file
suffix? Otherwise, I would need to list the (~1000) files in the
"install" files, which is not very robust.

Cheers

Ole

Hi,

This would also not work as substitution is applied /after/ "word
splitting". That is ${env:IRAF_FILES} would be treated as a single file
(with a lot of spaces) even if you could do the expansion.

The order is deliberate as it is the way debhelper supports files with
spaces (by using substitution variables to introduce them post split).

However, using dh-exec (as proposed elsewhere) might be an option as
then the substitution happens before the split and dh-exec does not have
the substitution limit either. I believe you can make dh-exec env
variables as well. However, it has a different syntax then debhelper.

Alternatively, you can just make the .install executable in general and
have it output what you want. That option also works.

Best regards,
Niels

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On 2023-07-15 Ole Streicher <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

I am upgrading one of my packages (iraf) to a new version. The new version comes with a "make install", which installs everything under /usr/lib/iraf/ (and some other places).

The "iraf" source package needs to divide these files into user related
files (for the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" packages) and development related
files (for "iraf-dev" and "iraf-noao-dev"). The problem is now, that the division is (mainly) by extension:

- *.cl, *.hd, *.men, *.par (... and some other extensions) should go to
the user packages

- *.a, *.h should go to the development packages

(the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" package differ mainly by that "iraf" collects them in the pkg/ subdir, and "iraf-noao" in the noao subdir).

The main question here is: how can I do a dh_install selective by file suffix? Otherwise, I would need to list the (~1000) files in the "install" files, which is not very robust.

Hello Olaf,

dh_install(1)
debian/package.install
[...] The format is a set of lines, where each line lists a
file or files to install, and at the end of the line tells the
directory it should be installed in.
[...] You may use wildcards in the names of the files to install.

debian/tmp/usr/lib/iraf/*.cl /targetdirfor_cl/

cu Andreas
--
`What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
so grateful to you.'
`I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'

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Hi Niels,

On 16.07.23 09:32, Niels Thykier wrote:

The "iraf" source package needs to divide these files into user
related files (for the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" packages) and
development related files (for "iraf-dev" and "iraf-noao-dev"). The
problem is now, that the division is (mainly) by extension:

[...]

Alternatively, you can just make the .install executable in general and
have it output what you want. That option also works.

I think this is the best solution; what I will do is and executable

------------- debian/iraf.install ---------------------
#!/bin/sh

cat <<EOF
debian/irafcl /usr/bin
... other installations by file name
EOF

cd debian/tmp
find usr/lib/iraf -name \*.cl -o -name \*.hlp -o ... -------------------------8<----------------------------

Thank you for the hint!

Best

Ole

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