[CMake] CPack: Problems creating debs (problem in tar command?)

[Eric Noulard]

2011/4/30 Martin Felis <martin at silef.de>:
> Hi there,
>
> I am currently trying to build a debian package using CPack, which worked
> surprisingly well, however when trying to install that package I get some
> errors that dpkg fails to create some files. I get error messages of the
> form:
>
> Unpacking asteroids (from steroids-0.9.1-Linux.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing steroids-0.9.1-Linux.deb (--install):
>  unable to create `/usr/share/steroids/config.rc.dpkg-new' (while processing
> `./usr/share/steroids/config.rc'): No such file or directory
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  steroids-0.9.1-Linux.deb
>
> By comparing the deb file with a previously hand made package it seems that
> the folders are not created by tar, i.e. assuming the files
>  /usr/share/foo/bar.png
>  /usr/share/foo/data/otherbar.png
> should end up in the package, meaning in data.tar.gz, then using CPack only
> the files
>  /usr/share/foo/bar.png
>  /usr/share/foo/data/otherbar.png
> get in. However in my hand crafted package also the directories make it into
> the data.tar.gz archive:
>  /usr/share/foo
>  /usr/share/foo/bar.png
>  /usr/share/foo/data
>  /usr/share/foo/data/otherbar.png
>
> When manually creating the file data.tar.gz of the
> _CPack_Packages/Linux/DEB/<name>/usr folder with "tar czv ./usr" and
> creating a deb archive with the other generated files, I can install the
> package without any problems.
>
> I am using Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) and its cmake 2.8.2 package on an
> 32bit system.

I think I remember we fixed something like that recently
Woud you be able to give CMake 2.8.4 a shot
(or even CMake master branch).

You may install 2.8.4 locally using prebuilt binaries:
http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

You can check the content of your deb package using:

dpkg -c steroids-0.9.1-Linux.deb

this should list files and directory to be installed.


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