I'm trying to create a .deb package for my xymon-client installation, but it is not creating the empty directories used for logs and temp files.
If I run checkinstall -D make install
or checkinstall
then
/# ls -l ~xymon/client
drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon root 4096 Dez 18 15:19 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon root 4096 Dez 18 15:19 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon root 4096 Dez 18 15:19 ext
drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon root 4096 Dez 18 15:19 logs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 xymon 500 3990 Fev 22 2009 runclient.sh
drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon root 4096 Dez 18 15:19 tmp
Works great!
But if checkinstall --install=no -D make install
or checkinstall --install=no
and dpkg -i xymon_4.2.3-1_i386.deb
then
/# ls -l ~xymon/client
drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon root 4096 Dez 18 15:19 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon root 4096 Dez 18 15:19 etc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 xymon 500 3990 Fev 22 2009 runclient.sh
I don't know the difference between running checkinstall
and checkinstall -D make install
, but it don't affect the result.
dpkg-deb -c xymon_4.2.3-1_i386.deb
gives me
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-12-18 15:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-12-18 14:21 ./home/
drwxr-xr-x xymon/xymon 0 2014-12-18 15:19 ./home/xymon/
drwxr-xr-x xymon/root 0 2014-12-18 15:19 ./home/xymon/client/
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 3990 2009-02-22 07:35 ./home/xymon/client/runclient.sh
drwxr-xr-x xymon/root 0 2014-12-18 15:19 ./home/xymon/client/etc/
-rw-r--r-- xymon/root 1623 2014-12-18 15:19 ./home/xymon/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
-rw-r--r-- xymon/root 1343 2014-12-18 15:19 ./home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
-rw-r--r-- xymon/root 20998 2014-12-18 15:19 ./home/xymon/client/etc/localclient.cfg
drwxr-xr-x xymon/root 0 2014-12-18 15:19 ./home/xymon/client/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 1904 2006-07-05 02:52 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient-openbsd.sh
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 1972 2008-11-26 10:47 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient-aix.sh
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 1701 2006-07-05 02:52 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient-osf1.sh
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/root 50964 2014-12-18 14:22 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitlaunch
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 1841 2006-08-02 10:35 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient-sco_sv.sh
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/root 55080 2014-12-18 14:22 ./home/xymon/client/bin/orcahobbit
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 2528 2008-11-28 16:19 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/root 63212 2014-12-18 14:22 ./home/xymon/client/bin/bbdigest
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/root 55072 2014-12-18 14:22 ./home/xymon/client/bin/bb
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 1834 2006-07-05 02:52 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient-irix.sh
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/root 59192 2014-12-18 14:22 ./home/xymon/client/bin/clientupdate
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/root 50988 2014-12-18 14:22 ./home/xymon/client/bin/msgcache
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/root 46828 2014-12-18 14:22 ./home/xymon/client/bin/bbcmd
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 2891 2006-07-06 06:07 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 1907 2006-07-05 02:52 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient-netbsd.sh
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/root 75572 2014-12-18 14:22 ./home/xymon/client/bin/logfetch
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 2039 2006-07-05 02:52 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient-freebsd.sh
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/root 75680 2014-12-18 14:22 ./home/xymon/client/bin/bbhostgrep
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 2070 2006-07-05 02:52 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient-hp-ux.sh
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 3033 2008-11-26 10:25 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient-sunos.sh
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/root 42724 2014-12-18 14:22 ./home/xymon/client/bin/bbhostshow
-rwxr-xr-x xymon/500 1555 2008-11-26 10:47 ./home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitclient-darwin.sh
...
As you can see, the deb package doesn't contain the empty dirs... Any ideas why?