Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Debian package of .LRN

I'll fix 1. & 2. ASAP.

With the unsolved problem I must say that the OpenACS installer assumes people is using daemontools so when the installer shutdown the server it will come up automatically (which is a function of daemontools).  In the debian dotlrn package we don't use daemontools so I'll modify the installer to reflect the fact that people must manually start the server again.

/etc/init.d/aolserver4 is the init script from the aolserver4 package and may collide with the dotlrn one, I'll figure out a solution or warn the user about it.

I'll post a revised version today, thank you for the support.

Yep.  I removed the old packages, the new dotlrn package is here:

deb http://home.galileo.edu/~solca/dotlrn/ binary/
deb-src http://home.galileo.edu/~solca/dotlrn/ source/

Please test it, report back _ANY_ problem.  I am pretty sure this one is almost _debian_repository_ quality.

You mean building from the source package or how to create a debian package (debianize)?

I simply build the package with:

cd source_dir
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

To build the package you need:

apt-get build-dep dotlrn
apt-get install build-essential fakeroot

The hard part is debianize the package which is better covered  somewhere in the debian's developer corner:

http://www.debian.org/devel/

Hope that helps.