Adding new files to a provider

Pierre Equoy pierre.equoy at canonical.com
Wed Mar 23 02:47:44 UTC 2016


Hi Jeff!

My two cents below. I'm not a seasoned Debian packaged though, so maybe
someone else will want to confirm this.


On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Jeffrey Lane <jeffrey.lane at canonical.com>
wrote:

> I still haven't gotten an answer to this yet, Maciej helped a bit, but
> then I had to take off and couldn't follow up quickly... and because
> of time-zone differences it's probably easier to do it this way.
>
> In the server cert provider
> (plainbox-provider-canonical-certification:master-server) I have added
> a bin dir and a script that we wrote to do some pre-testing before
> launching c-c-s.
>
> So my question is, what is the correct way now to ensure that the
> package built for plainbox-provider-certification-server installs the
> script in the bin dir to /usr/bin?
>

I believe the way to go is still to use the install file in the debian
directory:

https://git.launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev/plainbox-provider-canonical-certification/+git/packaging-server/tree/debian/plainbox-provider-certification-server.install

@Sylvain, do you confirm?


>
> The packaging stuff is kept separately and to be honest, I'm not even
> sure if the files in the debian dir are the appropriate place anymore
> for that or not... maybe it is.
>
> So I thought I'd ask here, how do I get my new script installed on the SUT?
>

-- 
Pierre Equoy
QA & Certification Engineer | Canonical
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