Dear All,

in preparation for next weeks DebPackaging colloquium you may want to
read up on a few subjects.

I assume you are able to understand and modify shell scripts and
Makefiles. If not:
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/index.html
You are also supposed to be able to handle 'dpkg' and 'apt' well enough
to install and uninstall packages and to inspect their contents. If not,
check the manpages.

Then the main course, the packaging itself. To get more out of contact
with the experts (which of course doesn't include me), you could take a
look at the following:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete
and also
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
or even
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/index.en.html

Because some exercises make use of version control, i.c. Subversion, you
would also benefit from understanding the Subversion terminology:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/index.html


If you are aware of anyone who would like to attend but is not in the
recipient list of this message, please feel free to forward this
message. And notify me, or forward subsequent mail as well.


Kind Regards,
Jurjen




Jurjen Bokma wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> the Debpackaging colloquium is hereby planned as previously announced:
> on the mornings of October the 6th and 7th. Times are not fixed yet.
> For the RuG employees: the appointment has been entered in your agendas.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Jurjen
>
>
> Jurjen Bokma wrote:
>> Dear All,
>
>> it is my pleasure to announce that there will be a short course in
>> DebPackaging this autumn. I would like to fix a date.
>
>> I found Frank Brokken willing to talk us through the theory, and we
>> decided to append a workshop to guide you through your first package
>> creation.
>> Frank has been creating Debian packages for years, and if schedules
>> permit, he will also invite a couple of actual Debian Developers. The
>> amount of packaging experience present will anyway be vastly larger than
>> initially announced. Because of that, I Cc'ed again even the people who
>> didn't respond to my initial request.
>
>> The dates I picked are:
>> Tuesday,  October the 6th 2009, 8:30-12:00 and
>> Wednesday October the 7th 2009, 8:30-12:000.
>> This way, we can have Franks favourite classroom on the first morning,
>> and a computer room with nine student PCs on the second.
>> The dates are tentative, but I would like to have fixed dates by the end
>> of the week. So here are my questions:
>
>> 1. Do you intend to follow the course?
>> 2. If so, can you attend on the above dates?
>> 3. Regardless of whether you can attend on the mentioned dates, please
>> indicate the dates and times in October that you absolutely cannot.
>> (Resolution is half a day.) For those who work at the RuG, this should
>> be done through the RuG agenda.
>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Jurjen
>
>
>> Jurjen Bokma wrote:
>>> Heren,
>>>
>>> voor de LWP zullen t.z.t. .deb-pakketten moeten worden gemaakt. Ik had
>>> dat wel eens ad-hoc gedaan, maar ga nu eens uitzoeken hoe het eigenlijk
>>> hoort.
>>>
>>> Animo.
>>> Wie heeft er belangstelling voor een soort colloquium, zeg een middag in
>>> september waar ik dan moet uitleggen wat ik gevonden heb? Wie heeft er
>>> zo veel belangstelling dat hij ruimte openhoudt in zijn agenda? Let wel,
>>> ik ben geenszins de expert, maar ik heb de indruk dat jullie dat op dit
>>> terrein ook niet allemaal zijn.
>>>
>>> Noodzaak.
>>> Is er iemand die wel serieus verstand heeft van deb-packaging, en is die
>>> eventueel bereid dat colloquium te geven, als er belangstelling is?
>>>
>>> Inhoud.
>>> Voor degenen die belangstelling hebben: wat weet je al, en wat wil je
>>> meer weten? Anatomie van packages, of van repositories? Keus van de
>>> toolchain? Details van een specifieke toolchain? DebHelper-scripts,
>>> PBuilder? Bepaalde aspecten? Policy compliance?
>>>
>>> Vorm.
>>> Praatje? Workshop?
>>>
>>> Eventuele reacties s.v.p. deze week nog.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mvgr.
>>> Jurjen