Re: Slackware jdk packages
From: Bryan E. Boone (Bryan.Boone_at_sas.com)
Date: 08/31/05
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:41:18 -0400
J wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:31:41 -0400, Bryan E. Boone
> <Bryan.Boone@sas.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm a new user to Slackware (Slax) but not Linux. I currently run
>> Debian. I am however new to Slackware's packaging system. Basically,
>> I'm looking for a good resource on how to build my own Slackware
>> packages. For me to do useful things on a key drive;) I need to
>> create a JDK package and a NetBeans package. From what I can gather,
>> the packages are some sort of compressed file, that stays compressed
>> on the system until needed?
>> I *think* that if I can wrestle these into slackware packages, then I
>> can modify them to fit on my Slax liveCD (USB). I've checked Slax's
>> forums. There's a mention that someone's done it for JDK 1.5 (but no
>> mention how) and I'd like to know how so I can build packages for the
>> JDK 1.6 mustang releases.
>> Hopefully, I can build Slackware packages using a Debian system;)
>> Thanks for any help.
>> -Bryan
>
>
> First, Slax is not Slackware. I can't speak to how similar it may be -
> if Slax is what used to be Slackware Live, I tried it awhile back and
> the packaging was similar, but the system as a whole diverged from
> Slack in a lot of ways. It's an unofficial variant.
>
> With that in mind, the standard procedure for building a Slackware
> package is to write a SlackBuild script (which is just './configure &&
> make && makepkg' with a lot of elaboration) and then run it. It should
> unpack the tarball, build the package, placing what will be the actual
> package files in /tmp/package-$NAME, and the last line should run the
> Slackware script 'makepkg' on it. A finished Slackware package is
> simply an ordinary tarball with a filename of a particular format
> (NAME-VER-ARCH-BUILD.tgz) and a directory alongside the directory
> mirror called 'install' with a 'slack-desc' file in it and possibly a
> 'doinst.sh' script. Slack-desc is a plain text file describing the
> program which is prepended to the filelist which is entered into the
> 'package database' (the collection of plain text files in
> /var/log/packages) and the doinst.sh is a (generally generated) script
> that recreates any symlinks that were in the package and (optionally)
> any other work that needs to be done besides just unpacking it. In
> other words, the only tools needed are the standard build tools,
> tar/gzip, and the Slackware pkgtools. So adapting those last to a
> Debian system might be difficult or more than difficult.
>
> Another alternative is to do './configure && make && checkinstall'
> which produces slack-descs of slightly non-standard format and may have
> problems with statically compiled apps and has other idiosyncrasies,
> but generally does a reasonable job of producing packages. It can
> produce rpms, slack packages, and deb packages but, to produce
> Slackware packages, it relies on Slack tools just the same, so that
> won't help building on Debian.
>
> You might be better off posting to alt.os.linux.slackware or joining
> ##slackware at irc.freenode.net (I'm often there) to get more
> discussion/answers. Also, check the /source directory of your nearest
> Slackware mirror and look at Patrick's actual build scripts to get an
> idea of how it's done. Lastly, although I don't recommend it in
> general, and they may not be compatible with Slax, you can check out
> 3rd party packages at www.userlocal.com/www.linuxpackages.com
> (something like that, Google for the right address) and they may
> already have what you need. And Slackware itself comes with JDK in the
> standard packages and the SDK in /extra (IIRC), though I don't recall
> which versions.
>
> Lastly, I apologize for the long post - and for however it may be
> screwed up. I'm playing around with a new newsreader (etc.) and
> probably haven't figured it out yet.
No sweat... Thanks for the info. (both package info and Slax/Slackware
backgroud)
-Bryan
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