GiftWrap 0.1 release

[Tibuda]

This is interesting. I tried to create a deb once, and it was a pain. It is not hard, but you have to figure out many things. I'll keep an eye on this.

I also agree wizards are annoying.

[pt123]

Once you click "generate", there could be a progress dialogue:

Would possible have a deb file for this program Paperbox, have been looking for one.
Thanks

[ghindo]

Would possible have a deb file for this program Paperbox, have been looking for one.
Thanks

Now you can just use GiftWrap to make one

[hero1900]

thank you very much for this info

[Technophobia]

Thank you Vadi for this great software, I can't wait to use it.

[Vadi]

Just to note - https://launchpad.net/~giftwrap-users team has been opened, and giftwrap-users@lists.launchpad.net is the mailing list to use for any support / discussion and etc.

[Ubuntiac]

Hey Vadi,

This has to be THE idea, who's time has come for Ubuntu. The number of times that I've heard that the main thing holding Ubuntu back is the speed of which we can package new software for testing.

Can this be used to package a straight binary (ie without any compiling). I'm making a game in Blender, which precompiles a binary straight from the app. I just want something that lets me browse for the binary, put in the name, dependencies, license etc and click generate.

Would this be possible with GiftWrap? Every packaging guide I ever see assumes I want to learn all about make files, source packages and worse. I just want to share a binary with dependencies, a menu entry and a description!


EDIT: Well, I tried it... saved my binary in a folder in the format packagename-version and .tar.gz compressed it for giftwrap. Unfortunately I got:

dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: source package mr-cubie
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Ubuntiac <please@dontspamme.com>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
/usr/bin/make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/.giftwrap/mr-cubie/mr-cubie-0.1'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/.giftwrap/mr-cubie/mr-cubie-0.1'
make: *** [clean] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2


Any way around this?

[xuCGC002]

Why didn't anyone else make it this easy to package .DEBs?

Amazing, I'll try it out tomorrow morning.

[Ubuntiac]

Why didn't anyone else make it this easy to package .DEBs?

Better yet: Why hasn't everyone heard of this, despitew the fact its been out (nearly) 2 months? Deb-a-day? Planet Gnome? Plaet KDE? Phoronix? All of the Ubuntu / Debian podcasts?

This really should be on them all.

Well, if it works the way *I* want, anyway!

[xuCGC002]

I tried compiling DOOM Legacy 1.42, but it keeps saying:

Unable to detect the top source folder in the archive. This should be something like <name>-<version>.

I'm not sure what to do.

EDIT: The top source folder is doomlegacy_142_src.