[00:29] <broder> tumbleweed: do we have a helper function in ubuntutools yet for "what version of $foo is current across all pockets in $release"?
[00:31] <broder> ooh, there is. sweet
[00:31] <tumbleweed> :)
[00:50] <pdtpatrick> Question - would someone please explain/help me with .deb packaging. I'm using deb helper and i've gone through the PackagingGuide.pdf -- and i still cannot understand how you move files around. For instance, if i want the .deb file when installed to have files in /etc/ and then /home/user/.filename  .. where/how do i do that ?  would this be the dh_installdeb helper script ?
[00:50] <soren> pdtpatrick: You can't generally ship files in /home.
[00:51] <soren> pdtpatrick: ...because you don't know at the time you build the package what the users on the system are called.
[00:51] <pdtpatrick> soren: okay let's say i make a package and i want to dump them around for instance, in /etc or maybe /data
[00:53] <soren> pdtpatrick: I'm supposing you'll elaborate?
[00:54] <soren> pdtpatrick: Otherwise, my answer will be equally (un-)specific: Use the mv command.
[00:55] <pdtpatrick> Let's assume i've created a shell script that allows admins to type "sstat" and it displays something like: http://cl.ly/1U0Z0a0R2e341z1f0c03
[00:55] <pdtpatrick> soren: and i'd like that script deployed in /usr/local/sbin when the package is installed
[00:56] <soren> pdtpatrick: Why?
[00:56] <pdtpatrick> I'm just trying to learn how to do - it has also confused me on how to accomplish that
[00:56] <pdtpatrick> soren: for instance, i'll install an asterisk package and it creates /etc with all the configs and such. I'd like to know how to do something like that
[00:57] <soren> pdtpatrick: Then ask about that :)
[00:57] <pdtpatrick> soren: sorry- would u please help with that :)
[00:57] <soren> pdtpatrick: Don't ask how to put stuff in /usr/local/bin if you really want to put things in /etc.
[00:57] <soren> Packaging tools will likely (and should) shout and scream if you try to put things in /usr/local.
[00:57] <pdtpatrick> fair enough. Is this something u could explain/help with ?
[00:58] <soren> Not with this little detail. Most things we package install things in etc themselves and the packaging magic just leaves it there.
[00:58] <soren> So to figure out why that doesn't work for you... We need more detail.
[00:59] <tumbleweed> if you don't have any kind of build system for the upstream package, it's fairly easy to install things with dh_install (see its manpage)
[00:59] <pdtpatrick> for instance, i was learning by following the guide
[00:59] <pdtpatrick> http://cl.ly/27142Z260M3w1F1y3q12
[01:00] <pdtpatrick> but now i'd like for testing purposes to have it put something /etc/<dirname>/filename
[01:01] <pdtpatrick> i don't know how to accomplish that
[01:01] <soren> pdtpatrick: Yeah, what tumbleweed said ^
[01:02] <pdtpatrick> tumbleweed: is there an example you can share please
[01:03] <tumbleweed> pdtpatrick: "foo.cfg /etc" in debian/install
[01:04] <pdtpatrick> and foo.cfg would be in debian/  right ?
[01:04] <tumbleweed> no
[01:05] <tumbleweed> I quote from the manpage: The name of the files (or directories) to install should be given relative to the current directory
[01:05] <pdtpatrick> was just reading that. Thanks
[01:26] <Laney> Packaging branch status: CURRENT
[01:26] <Laney> is there anything sweeter?
[01:27] <tumbleweed> debdiffs? :)
[01:27] <Laney> i might agree with you, depending on how well bzr handles this merge
[01:28] <Laney> (emacs23) :(
[01:29] <Laney> although trying to bzr branch on crappy airport wifi …
[01:31]  * Laney should get barry to do it as TIL :P
[01:32] <broder> committer: Evan Broder <evan@caron.(null)> > uuuugh
[01:32] <broder> i hate having to re-do this for every vcs
[01:33] <broder> can i...do some sort of rebase to fix that?
[01:35] <broder> tumbleweed: around to do a u-d-t review? (will timeout in a minute or so and open a mp)
[01:35]  * Laney NFI
[01:35] <tumbleweed> broder: in the bar
[01:35]  * broder heads that way
[01:36] <Laney> I assume you have an .$SHELLrc; you might want to make that set BZR_EMAIL
[01:36] <broder> Laney: equally easy to run bzr whoami 'Evan Broder <evan@ebroder.net>'
[01:37] <broder> there would be no difference if i actually had a sane dotfile management system
[01:37] <Laney> equally easy to forget you mean? ;)
[01:37] <Laney> I assume one dotfile you don't forget is that one
[01:37] <broder> i don't really have any dotfile htat's on all my machines
[01:38] <Laney> fair
[01:38]  * Laney makes a mental note to digest http://vcs-home.branchable.com/ at some point
[01:41] <Laney> 100mb to branch emacs23 so far ...
[01:43]  * Laney reflects that this would have taken 33⅓ hours on his first internet connection
[05:12] <pdtpatrick> Question - i've got a setup like this: http://pastie.org/private/y6dsewj2lnbeamylrzg
[05:12] <pdtpatrick> i would like the helloworld.py to get copied to /tmp on the filesystem when the .deb is installed
[05:12] <pdtpatrick> however i seem to be doing it wrong
[05:16] <pdtpatrick> I keep getting the following error after running "pbuilder create "
[05:17] <pdtpatrick> http://pastie.org/pastes
[05:18] <cody-somerville> pdtpatrick, You need to link to the specific paste.
[05:19] <pdtpatrick> cody-somerville: http://pastie.org/3898537
[05:20] <pdtpatrick> cody-somerville: here's a structure of my source
[05:20] <pdtpatrick> http://pastie.org/private/y6dsewj2lnbeamylrzg
[05:20] <cody-somerville> pdtpatrick, I need the full log including the command you executed.
[05:20] <pdtpatrick> ok
[05:22] <pdtpatrick> cody-somerville: http://pastie.org/private/hzuppi2mblgihjm27codfa
[05:28] <pdtpatrick> cody-somerville: I'm using the default rules file.
[05:28] <pdtpatrick> http://pastie.org/3898563
[06:15] <pdtpatrick> well after some battles - finally figured it out by reading:
[06:15] <pdtpatrick> http://static.debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.becoming-package-maintainer.html#idp12507752
[16:14] <PaoloRotolo> Hi all!