Re: package creation

[Daniel Reed]

On 2004-08-12T13:28-0700, Gustavo A. Baratto wrote:
) Basically, what I looking for is a 'make package' rule, where all the files
) that would be installed, plus an install script could be tarred up together,
) so we can copy the tarball to many diferent servers, unpack it, run the
) script, and the files get installed without the need of copying over or nfs
) mounting the whole source code? Not a fancy full blown package like rpm.

In naim, I do this by adding code to configure.in and Makefile.am.

configure.in addition:
AC_SUBST([pkgtarball], ['${PACKAGE_TARNAME}-${PACKAGE_VERSION}-${host}.tgz'])
AC_ARG_WITH(pkgtarball,
        AC_HELP_STRING([--with-pkgtarball], [binary tarball file 
[[naim-VERSION-HOST.tgz]]]),
        [
                pkgtarball=${withval}
        ]
)


Makefile.am addition:
tarball: tgz
tgz:
        mkdir "${top_builddir}/tmp"
        make install-strip DESTDIR="`cd ${top_builddir}/tmp; pwd`"
        (cd "${top_builddir}/tmp"; $(AMTAR) cf - --owner 0 --group 0 usr | 
GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c >../${pkgtarball})
        rm -rf "${top_builddir}/tmp"

pkgtbz2 = `echo ${pkgtarball} | sed 's/gz$$/bz2/'`
tbz2:
        mkdir "${top_builddir}/tmp"
        make install-strip DESTDIR="`cd ${top_builddir}/tmp; pwd`"
        (cd "${top_builddir}/tmp"; $(AMTAR) cf - --owner 0 --group 0 usr | 
bzip2 -9 -c >../${pkgtbz2})
        rm -rf "${top_builddir}/tmp"


You can then ./configure --prefix=/usr && make tgz. The output will be
YOURPACKAGE-YOURVERSION-YOURHOST.tgz, which you can move to your
to-be-installed machines and untar from /

(By adding a little more code to Makefile.am, you can use this to create a
Cygwin-compatible package as well :)

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