Problem building deb on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty)

[Nathan Buchanan]

You could try contacting one of the people who create this package - Maybe
they do something special. Check
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gnucash/gnucash_2.0.5-1ubuntu1~feisty1.diff.gz

Nathan

On 8/16/07, Patrik Lermon <patrik at gnupung.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I'm trying to build gnucash from svn repository, following the guide
> on the Wiki, but it fails in two places.
>
> I run ./configure without problems. But when I run checkinstall,
> something fails.
>
> -----------------------------------------
> $ checkinstall --default --install=no
>
> checkinstall 1.6.1, Copyright 2002 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
>            This software is released under the GNU GPL.
>
>
>
> *****************************************
> **** Debian package creation selected ***
> *****************************************
>
> This package will be built according to these values:
>
> 0 -  Maintainer: [ patrik at conference ]
> 1 -  Summary: [ Package created with checkinstall 1.6.1 ]
> 2 -  Name:    [ gnucash ]
> 3 -  Version: [ 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0
> 2.2.0 ]
> 4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
> 5 -  License: [ GPL ]
> 6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
> 7 -  Architecture: [ i386 ]
> 8 -  Source location: [ gnucash ]
> 9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
> 10 - Requires: [  ]
> -----------------------------------------
>
> As you can see the "3 -  Version"-section is wrong, it contains the
> gnucash version over and over again with newlines. The checkinstall
> will fail with this error:
>
> dpkg-deb: parse error, in file
> `/var/tmp/lYOpfkOrdjGJBSojPNrec/package/DEBIAN/control' near line 8
> package `gnucash':
> newline in field name `2.2.0'
>
> However, this problem can be solved by running checkinstall with the
> --pkgversion flag set.
>
> Problem number two occurs when running:
> $ checkinstall --default --install=no --pkgversion=2.2.0
>
> This will succeed and create a .deb file.
> The .deb file however seems to have some errors, first it is 6MB large:
> $ ls -alh gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 patrik patrik 6.0M 2007-08-16 15:10 gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb
>
> The default 2.0.2 Ubuntu built gnucash is about 2MB.
> $ ls -alh /var/cache/apt/archives/gnucash_2.0.2-3ubuntu1_i386.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,1M 2007-01-29 00:03
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gnucash_2.0.2-3ubuntu1_i386.deb
>
> When I try to install the image, I get the following error:
> $ sudo dpkg -i gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb
> (Reading database ... 170254 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace gnucash 2.0.2-3ubuntu1 (using
> gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement gnucash ...
> dpkg: error processing gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/ld', which is also in package binutils
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb
>
> It seems like way to much data was copied into the image, I guess ld
> doesn't belong there.
>
> Anyone got a solution to either or both of these problem may be?
>
> Best regards,
>   Patrik Lermon
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