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Information for packaging maintainers

Packaging Dool for your platform should be very simple. Dool is a single Python script, a manpage, and some optional plugins.

Prerequisites

  • Any recent version of Python 3.x

Global installation

  • The dool script should be in the global path. This is usually /usr/bin/
  • The plugins should be placed in /usr/share/dool/ (optional)
  • The dool.1 manpage should be placed the appropriate manpage location. This is usually /usr/share/man/man1 (optional)

Plugin installation can be verified by running dool --list to show all the plugins that were found and what directories they were found in. If you are having problems packaging the plugins they can be skipped. 90% of the functionality is built in to the core dool script.

Local user installation

  • The dool script should be in the user's $PATH. Usually this is ~/bin/
  • The plugins should be placed in ~/.dool/ (optional)

Building packages

Dool uses make to build packages. In the packaging/ directory we break out each platform with an associated build script.

  • Build a .tar.gz file: make dist
  • Build an RPM for RedHat platforms: make rpm
  • Build a Debian package: make deb