Packaging a split libfoo/libfoo-devel package?

[Max Bowsher]

David Rothenberger wrote:
> I'm interested in packaging libogg and libvorbis in order to package
> flac, vorbis-tools and possibly vorbisgain and shntool. Can anyone give
> me a good example of how to package a library like libogg so that it's
> split into two packages: libogg and libogg-devel?
>
> These would be my first packaging attempts. I'd like to use the
> generic-build-script but that doesn't support the splitting. I was
> hoping to find an example of the script that does the splitting to use
> as a basis for my packages.

You can make it do splitting quite easily, though.

I package apr/libapr0 in this way, by modifying the pkg() function of g-b-s:

pkg() {
  (cd ${instdir} && \
  tar -cjvf "${topdir}/libapr0-$VER-$REL.tar.bz2" usr/bin/cygapr-0-0.dll
  tar --exclude='usr/bin/cygapr-0-0.dll' -cjvf ${bin_pkg} * )
}


Max.