[CMake] Creating Debian source packages with CMake

[Aaron_Wright at selinc.com]

Does it make sense to use CPack for debian packaging? When I first started 
my current project I explored creating debian packages with CPack. I 
decided not to because it is counter to what any typical debian user will 
expect. Anyone getting the source for a debian package knows that running 
"dpkg-buildpackage" will create packages. They may not have a clue what 
CPack is. This goes for utilities such as "apt-get" which can build 
packages from source if they follow the standard debian way of doing it.

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Aaron Wright




From:
Daniel Pfeifer <daniel at pfeifer-mail.de>
To:
cmake at cmake.org
Date:
10/20/2010 04:08 AM
Subject:
[CMake] Creating Debian source packages with CMake
Sent by:
cmake-bounces at cmake.org



Hi,

CPack, the packaging system that ships with CMake, builds
component-based installers for Mac OS X and Windows only. On Linux, the
packages generated by CPack are single, monolithic units.
I hacked a CMake script that creates a single deb-src package, uploads
it to the Launchpad build service where it generates one deb package for
each component. 

Read more at: http://purplekarrot.net/blog/dputCMake.html
Use the script at your own risk, and please provide feedback.

cheers, Daniel

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