Wiki updates - Debian instructions

[Alex Sharaz]

Many thanks for the new instructions, one point though is that you do need
the "equivs" package installed. Had to install this on an Ubuntu 15.0.4
system and a Raspberry Pi Ubuntu-MATE system.


However, still can't build packages, because I get

dh_installdirs
    install -d debian/freeradius
/usr/userfs/a/as1558/freeradius-server-3.0.x-290316/debian/freeradius.dirs:
1:
/usr/userfs/a/as1558/freeradius-server-3.0.x-290316/debian/freeradius.dirs:
usr/lib/freeradius: not found
/usr/userfs/a/as1558/freeradius-server-3.0.x-290316/debian/freeradius.dirs:
2:
/usr/userfs/a/as1558/freeradius-server-3.0.x-290316/debian/freeradius.dirs:
var/log/freeradius: not found
dh_installdirs: problem reading debian/freeradius.dirs:

usr/lib/freeradius and  var/log/freeradius don't exist under the FreeRadius
source directory. If I create them, I then get a permission denied message.
This happens on both the Ubuntu 15.04 VM and the Pi Ubuntu MATE systems.
source downloaded from git today.

Rgds
Alex


On 28 March 2016 at 01:06, Matthew Newton <mcn4 at leicester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Just a heads-up here as I know people often point at the Debian
> building instructions on the wiki.
>
> I've done a little reorganising. The main "Build" page has been
> getting rather long, so I've separated the Debian build
> instructions off into the (already existing) "Debian" page. So
> Debian and Ubuntu now point there:
>
>   http://wiki.freeradius.org/building/Build
>
> points to
>
>   http://wiki.freeradius.org/building/Debian
>
> Essentially, the cluebat for "I'm using 2.1.12 on Debian" should now
> be http://wiki.freeradius.org/building/Debian
>
> The build instructions now also include mk-build-deps to
> automatically install the build-deps, rather than using apt-get
> build-dep, which actually installs the build-deps for the version
> in the Debian repository (probably 2.1.12...) rather than
> (hopefully) 3.x. And I've removed some prehistoric stuff regarding
> OpenSSL from 2.1.8 or so.
>
> I've also taken the liberty to expand that page to include
> instructions on building Debian Samba packages that include the
> libwbclient patches to enable direct communication with winbind.
> This is required because the latest version of Samba in Debian
> Jessie is still less than 4.2.1, but is now much easier than
> it was with Samba 3 in Wheezy.
>
> I've tested most combinations of building from the instructions,
> but shout (or correct them) if it doesn't work for any particular
> situation.
>
> If anyone has Oracle and wants to update the section on building
> with support for that then please do so. It links to a remote site
> that is now five years old. I don't have a copy of Oracle (hey,
> it's not free) so can't update that.
>
> At some point I plan to add instructions for building clean
> packages using sbuild as well. The current instructions are fine
> for installing on the same machine it was built on, but not good
> for distribution.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
>
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>
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