OpenCSW-zile

Creating an OpenCSW package for zile

This wiki page details how to create an OpenCSW package on a sparc system.

Creating the directory structure

mkdir ~/pkg/ # Where the packages will be created
mkdir ~/build 
mkdir ~/build-sparc
mkdir ~/build-i386
mkdir ~/src # Good place to store tarballs and signatures

Getting the source

http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/

cd ~/src

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/zile/zile-2.3.9.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/zile/zile-2.3.9.tar.gz.sig

cd ~/build-sparc
gzip -c -d ~/src/zile-2.3.9.tar.gz | tar -xf -

Compiling

cd zile-2.3.9

./configure --prefix=/opt/csw

gmake

cp COPYING ~/pkg/zile/copyright

Creating the Package

 stagepkg

Note the command line for createpkg spit out from the cswstage command.

 cd cswstage

Modify the prototype file

At this point there are several things you need to find out.

• What are the dependencies
• What are you going to exclude from the package
• Change the ownership of the files to root:bin

Take a look at the newly create prototype file:

# cat prototype
i pkginfo
i copyright
i depend
d none /opt/csw/bin 0755 root bin
f none /opt/csw/bin/zile 0755 root bin
d none /opt/csw/lib 0755 root bin
d none /opt/csw/lib/charset.alias 0644 root bin
d none /opt/csw/share 0755 root bin
d none /opt/csw/share/man 0755 root bin
d none /opt/csw/share/man/man1 0755 root bin
f none /opt/csw/share/man/man1/zile.1 0644 root bin
d none /opt/csw/share/zile 0755 root bin
f none /opt/csw/share/zile/dotzile.sample 0644 root bin
f none /opt/csw/share/zile/FAQ 0644 root bin

There are a bunch of directories and files that do not need to be in the package. OpenCSW has created them I opted to remove them from the prototype file so the would not be included and ask the installer silly questions.

# cat prototype
i pkginfo
i copyright
i depend
f none /opt/csw/bin/zile 0755 root bin
d none /opt/csw/lib/charset.alias 0644 root bin
f none /opt/csw/share/man/man1/zile.1 0644 root bin
d none /opt/csw/share/zile 0755 root bin
f none /opt/csw/share/zile/dotzile.sample 0644 root bin
f none /opt/csw/share/zile/FAQ 0644 root bin

Create the package

• Create the pkginfo file
• Create the depend file
• Run the createpkg -r command, and note the dependent packages and files
• Update the depend file to include these packages
• Re-run createpkg -r command

 
cd ~/pkg/zile
$EDITOR pkginfo
 PKG=CSWzile
 NAME=zile - GNU Zile - lightweight Emacs clone
 VERSION=2.3.9,REV=2009.07.08
 CATEGORY=application
 VENDOR=http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/ packaged for OpenCSW by Douglas Denny
 HOTLINE=http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/
 EMAIL=[nineohtwo@opencsw.org]

Create the depend file

 touch depend

Update the depend file and run create createpkg again.

 createpkg -r /path/to/cswstage

Check the directory to see your newly created package

 ls -ltr

It should look something like this:

#ls -ltr
total 856
-rw-------   1 root     bin          260 Apr 20 10:02 pkginfo
-rw-------   1 root     bin        35147 Apr 20 10:06 copyright
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          11 Apr 20 10:32 depend
-rw-------   1 root     bin          269 Apr 20 10:48 prototype
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      281088 Apr 20 10:48 zile-2.3.9,REV=2010.04.21-SunOS5.10-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz

But we are not done yet, there is a file that is shared and warns us to only let CSWiconv have this file.

• Remove the offending file(s) from the prototype file
• Add a dependency to the depend file P CSWiconv
• Re-run the createpkg -r command

And you should have a fully functional OpenCSW package. Easy No?

References

• http://www.opencsw.org/standards/pkg-walkthrough