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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Scope of exported function Post 302496560 by steadyonabix on Monday 14th of February 2011 12:26:26 PM
Old 02-14-2011
Thanks

I think this would still involve an entry in their profile or kshrc though.

I think I'll start another more detailed post about what I am trying to achieve.

Thanks for the input

---------- Post updated at 05:13 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:56 PM ----------

Now I have the package installing this how I want I can put a lot more detail in here about what I am trying to do: -

I have a two related utilities called push and pop that I have written as exported functions. They allow me to create "stacks" of directories that are presented to the user in the form of menus: -
=============================================================
Current stack is - Packaging
=============================================================
1) /home/brad/spideroak/wip/packaging/pushpop
2) /home/brad/spideroak/wip/packaging/pushpop/debian/DEBIAN
3) /home/brad/spideroak/wip/packaging/pushpop/debian/usr/bin
4) /home/brad/spideroak/wip/packaging/pushpop/debian/usr/share/doc/pushpop
5) /var/cache/man
6) /home/brad/spideroak/wip/man/man1
7) Quit
Please select a directory -

So while I am developing something I can create a stack of all of the directories I am interested in while the development is in progress. Also if I come back to it in a months time I can reload the saved stack and I can immediately see all of the directories that relate to this project.

I thought this would be a nice project to cut my teeth on debian packaging and so I have created a package that installs the files containing the functions and environment vars into /usr/bin and adds a couple of man pages.

To access the functions I put two entries into my kshrc file: -

. /usr/bin/.pp.env
. /usr/bin/.exported.funcs

I think this is the weakness in the package though, I don't like the idea of the end users needing the knowledge of how to do this. I would like the package to take care of all dependencies.

I can't have the package modify everyones kshrc or profile. After all this is specific to korn shell users and anyway people should have the right to opt in rather than have this forced on them.

That is why I was asking about the group idea but am open to any suggestions that allow users to opt in without knowing how to find and edit their profile or kshrc.

I guess in a worst case scenario I could put details on how to enter these in the man pages.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

---------- Post updated at 05:26 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:13 PM ----------

Hi Folks

I've been boning up on how to create debian packages and now have a working package. I am still getting warnings though when I run it through lintean: -

Code:
/home/brad/spideroak/wip/packaging/pushpop > lintian pushpop_1.2-1_all.deb
W: pushpop: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 5 "found eof where expected first heading"
W: pushpop: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/.exported.funcs
W: pushpop: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/.pp.env

With regard to the errors about binaries without man pages. These are two files: one containing environment vars and the other some exported functions. The directory structure used to create the package is: -

Code:
./debian
./debian/usr
./debian/usr/bin
./debian/usr/bin/.pp.env
./debian/usr/bin/.exported.funcs
./debian/usr/share
./debian/usr/share/doc
./debian/usr/share/doc/pushpop
./debian/usr/share/doc/pushpop/copyright
./debian/usr/share/doc/pushpop/changelog.Debian.gz
./debian/usr/share/man
./debian/usr/share/man/man1
./debian/usr/share/man/man1/push.1.gz
./debian/usr/share/man/man1/pop.1.gz
./debian/DEBIAN
./debian/DEBIAN/control

How can I get rid of these warnings as I don't want man pages for the files. My man pages refer to the internal exported functions.


With regard to the warning: -

Code:
W: pushpop: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 5 "found eof where expected first heading"

I've been reading tutorials all day on this but can't seem to bottom out what it wants. Here is the file: -

Code:
pushpop (1.2-1) urgency=low

  * Made Debian package lintian clean.

 -- maintainer Bradley Atkins <info@bradleyatkins.com>  Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:00:00 +0000

I think their should be a field between the name (version) and the urgency field. But the line it is complaining about is the last line.

Any ideas or insights are welcome
 

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