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Operating Systems Linux Slackware Packages of different distributions Post 58414 by avaurus on Sunday 21st of November 2004 08:37:04 AM

11-21-2004

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Packages of different distributions

hi,
as you know nearly every distribution has its own package-management and it needs special packages to install different software.
For slackware it's *.tgz, for debian *.deb, for many rpm's *.rpm and so on, but I wonder how a package can be built to be compatibel with every maschine.

An example:
I have downloaded the package for sodipodi from linuxpackages.net and I use slackware 10. The package was also built for slackware 10, but after the quick installation I found out that I was not able to execute the binary "sodipodi", because a library is missing. After that I downloaded the source of sodipodi and compiled it myself. ./configure didn't complain about missing libs, so I "make"d sodipodi and it worked. I am now able to use sodipodi.
My explanation is that the package creator has built sodipodi against another version of a lib, which is already installed on my system.

So, my question is, how to build a package, which runs for example on all slackware 10 installations? I think this is quite impossible, because I am not able to know if the user has updated some libs or if I have a newer lib than the user.

It would be nice if you would comment on my question, because I don't understand the topic with different library-versions. It just confuses me :/...

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dh_bugfiles

DH_BUGFILES(1)							     Debhelper							    DH_BUGFILES(1)

NAME
       dh_bugfiles - install bug reporting customization files into package build directories

SYNOPSIS
       dh_bugfiles [-A] [debhelperoptions]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_bugfiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing bug reporting customization files (bug scripts and/or bug control
       files and/or presubj files) into package build directories.

FILES
       debian/package.bug-script
	   This is the script to be run by the bug reporting program for generating a bug report template. This file is installed as
	   usr/share/bug/package in the package build directory if no other types of bug reporting customization files are going to be installed
	   for the package in question. Otherwise, this file is installed as usr/share/bug/package/script. Finally, the installed script is given
	   execute permissions.

       debian/package.bug-control
	   It is the bug control file containing some directions for the bug reporting tool. This file is installed as
	   usr/share/bug/package/control in the package build directory.

       debian/package.bug-presubj
	   The contents of this file are displayed to the user by the bug reporting tool before allowing the user to write a bug report on the
	   package to the Debian Bug Tracking System. This file is installed as usr/share/bug/package/presubj in the package build directory.

OPTIONS
       -A, --all
	   Install debian/bug-* files to ALL packages acted on when respective debian/package.bug-* files do not exist. Normally, debian/bug-*
	   will be installed to the first package only.

SEE ALSO
       /usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.developers.gz

       debhelper(1)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR
       Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>

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