package creation problem

mobilemonkey · 07-22-2007, 07:15 AM

hello, i need to add a configuration file to a package im building, but im not sure where to put it in the package so that it gets to the right place on the filesystem.

basically i want to create a package which drops a whole lot of fonts into a directory, then places a config file into the '/etc/fonts' dir, so that config file can be read by a program (freetype).

when i build my packages i use the '--prefix=/usr' option to configure, so im guessing the file will end up in '/usr/etc/fonts', instead of where i want it to go ('/etc/fonts'). i know about the '--sysconfdir=/etc' option to configure, but im not sure how just setting that would put the file in the right place?

any help to clear the confusion is much appreciated.

uselpa · 07-22-2007, 07:31 AM

I've created a font package myself, but I haven't had the need to use make or autoconf. Why not just create a subdirectory with usr/share/fonts and etc/fonts subdirectories and use makepkg on that?

mobilemonkey · 07-22-2007, 08:35 AM

hi uselpa, not sure i fully understand you. i thought that if i created an 'etc/fonts' directory within the root build directory, the resulting package would install the config file in '/usr/etc/fonts'? or do you mean create a seperate package for the config file?

uselpa · 07-22-2007, 09:49 AM

No, just one package.
Assuming your build directory is /build, if you create /build/etc/fonts then the resulting package will be installed in /etc/fonts, not /usr/etc/fonts (where would the additional usr come from?).
As an example, here's what my package looks like:

Code:

pu@slackw:/home/SHARED/software/sl120/allfonts$ less allfonts-1.0-noarch-1.tgz | cat
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2007-07-14 18:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2007-07-13 19:42 usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2007-07-13 19:42 usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2007-07-14 18:04 usr/share/fonts/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2007-07-13 22:41 usr/share/fonts/TTF_WIN/
-r--r--r-- root/root    245032 2001-08-23 14:00 usr/share/fonts/TTF_WIN/couri.ttf
   [...]
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2007-07-14 18:05 install/
-rwxr--r-- root/root       132 2006-06-25 00:45 install/doinst.sh
-rw-r--r-- root/root       258 2007-07-13 22:33 install/slack-desc
-rwxr--r-- root/root      1432 2007-07-14 18:05 install/doinst.py
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2006-06-24 11:34 etc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2006-06-24 11:45 etc/fonts/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       425 2006-06-24 11:24 etc/fonts/local.conf.MSFONTS

mobilemonkey · 07-22-2007, 10:52 AM

ah yes of course! i understand now

i think the '--prefix=/usr' thing got me confused. i thought the build directory would be '/user', when its actually '/'. so doing as you suggest will allow me to put the config file into '/etc/fonts' directory.

thankyou for your help uselpa

uselpa · 07-22-2007, 01:13 PM

Where would you use --prefix=/usr in this case?