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Since I've managed to get it to work for GSSMP, I thought I might share how I am generating .deb and RPM packages using a Makefile. These make it much easier for Ubuntu and Fedora Linux users (respectively) to install the program. It should also be helpful for people using Debian, who can try the .deb, and other RPM-based distros, who can try the RPM.

This project is all autotool ed-up, so this may not be very helpful if you don't use autotools.

(Side tip: I don't understand autotools at all, but since I created the project with glade, it did all the hard work for me.)

I created these files for the Ubuntu .deb package:

This package was debianized by Andy Balaam <myemailaddress> on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:33:11 +0000. It was downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=187144&package_id=219138 Copyright Holder: Andy Balaam <myemailaddress> License: This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify blah blah blah GPL boilerplate

Source: gssmp Section: sound Priority: optional Maintainer: Andy Balaam <myemailaddress> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), autotools-dev, libgstreamer0.10-dev, libgnomeui-dev Standards-Version: 3.6.2 Package: gssmp Architecture: any Depends: libgstreamer0.10-0, libgnomeui-0 Description: Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player GSSMP is a music player designed to work with Gnome. It does not store a database of all your music, but is designed to work with music files organised into directories. It is small, unobtrusive, and tries to do what you would expect, instead of asking you questions. . It remembers which file was playing on exit, and continues that file from the same place when you start again. It remembers tracks you have been listening to recently and displays them in the "Recent" menu.

I put those three files in my source tree under install/deb/.

For the RPM, I just needed one file, gssmp.spec:

### ### RPM spec file for Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player ### ### Adapted from jEdit's spec file http://www.jedit.org ### Summary: A music player that doesn't interfere. Name: gssmp Provides: gssmp Version: 0.8 Release: 1 License: GPL Group: Applications/Multimedia/ Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2 URL: http://gssmp.sourceforge.net/ Vendor: Andy Balaam <myemailaddress> Packager: Andy Balaam <myemailaddress> BuildArch: i386 BuildRoot: %{_builddir}/%{name}-root Requires: libgnomeui, gstreamer BuildRequires: libgnomeui-devel, gstreamer-devel %description GSSMP is a music player designed to work with Gnome. It does not store a database of all your music, but is designed to work with music files organised into directories. It is small, unobtrusive, and tries to do what you would expect, instead of asking you questions. It remembers which file was playing on exit, and continues that file from the same place when you start again. It remembers tracks you have been listening to recently and displays them in the "Recent" menu. %prep %setup -n %{name}-%{version} %build ./configure --prefix=/usr make %install make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install %clean rm -rf %{buildroot} %files /usr/bin/gssmp /usr/share/doc/gssmp/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/gssmp/COPYING /usr/share/doc/gssmp/INSTALL /usr/share/doc/gssmp/NEWS /usr/share/doc/gssmp/README /usr/share/doc/gssmp/TODO

Then I modified my Makefile.am to build the deb and RPM when I told it to:

APP_NAME=gssmp # Create a deb package pkg-deb: pkg-src - rm -r $(TMP_DIR) mkdir -p $(TMP_DIR) cp pkg/$(APP_NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.bz2 $(TMP_DIR)/ tar --directory $(TMP_DIR)/ \ -xjf $(TMP_DIR)/$(APP_NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.bz2 cd $(TMP_DIR)/$(APP_NAME)-$(VERSION)/; \ echo | dh_make --single --copyright gpl -e myemailaddress -f \ ../$(APP_NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.bz2 cp install/deb/changelog install/deb/control \ install/deb/copyright $(TMP_DIR)/$(APP_NAME)-$(VERSION)/debian/ cd $(TMP_DIR)/$(APP_NAME)-$(VERSION)/; \ rm debian/README.Debian debian/*.ex debian/*.EX; \ ./configure; \ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot; \ mv ../*.deb $(PWD)/pkg/ rm -r $(TMP_DIR); # Create an RPM package pkg-rpm: pkg-src mkdir -p $(HOME)/.rpm/RPMS/i386 mkdir -p $(HOME)/.rpm/SRPMS mkdir -p $(HOME)/.rpm/BUILD mkdir -p $(HOME)/.rpm/SOURCES mkdir -p $(HOME)/.rpm/tmp - rm -r $(HOME)/.rpm/BUILD/$(APP_NAME)-root - rm -r $(HOME)/.rpm/RPMS/$(APP_NAME)-* - rm -r $(HOME)/.rpm/SRPMS/$(APP_NAME)-* - rm -r $(HOME)/.rpm/SOURCES/$(APP_NAME)-* cp pkg/$(APP_NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.bz2 $(HOME)/.rpm/SOURCES/ rpmbuild --quiet --nodeps --define="_topdir $(HOME)/.rpm" \ -ba install/rpm/gssmp.spec mv $(HOME)/.rpm/RPMS/i386/$(APP_NAME)-$(VERSION)-*.i386.rpm pkg/

Now I just needed to run./autogen.sh to regenerate my Makefile, and then make pkg-deb or make pkg-rpm and the deb or RPM appears magically in the pkg/ directory.

Autotools, for all its faults, does make this stuff relatively easy. All the code for installing in different places (installing at all) and general flexibility is done for you. Of course, it's at the expense of ever understanding what's going on, but you can't have everything.

Now I just need to make a man page ... and fix all the bugs ... oh, and make an icon ... and make it accept a filename on the command line ... and sort out MIME types ... etc ... so it should be finished really soon.

Originally posted at 2007-02-23 05:37:25+00:00. Automatically generated from the original post : apologies for the errors introduced.

Creating .deb and RPM packages