[hobbit] Debian Packaging

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Wed Oct 15 07:20:12 CEST 2008


In <48F513CF.9090401 at elyograg.org> Shawn Heisey <elyograg at elyograg.org> writes:

>I haven't done an in-depth study, but I've noticed that most of what's 
>in the allinone patch is not included in this packaging effort.  When I 
>apply the allinone patch against the source tree after debian/rules 
>applies its patches, only two of the patches fail to apply - the one for 
>./hobbitd/rrd/do_ncv.c is already applied, and the one for 
>./hobbitd/wwwfiles/menu/menu_items.js.DIST fails because this file 
>doesn't exist.  In fact, the enture hobbitd/wwwfiles/menu directory is 
>empty.

>For my production server, I have taken the source package and applied 
>the allinone and bbwin patches to it, but now I am wondering if that was 
>a good idea.  Is the allinone patch omitted from the debian package for 
>a good reason?  Why is that menu directory empty?


As I recall, the Debian package uses a different solution for creating 
the menu - which is probably why the "menu" directory is empty.


Regards,
Henrik





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