Converting the Novell iPrint client to a Debian package

From an iPrint servers' main page, all client rpm can be downloaded. So there is no need to install platform X in order to dowload the client rpm for platform X.

We unpack the Debian package (created with alien):

Then we enter the unpack directory, and start moving things around:

1. We move the log file to a proper place:

   
         
   cd unpack
   mkdir -p var/log/iprint && rm -rf var/opt/
         
       

2. We move the manpage to a proper place:

   
         
   mkdir -p usr/share/man/man1 &&\
   mv opt/novell/man/man1/iprntcmd.1 usr/share/man/man1 &&\
   gzip usr/share/man/man1/iprntcmd.1 &&\
   rm -rf opt/novell/man/
         
       

3. We move around some libraries:

   
         
   mv opt/novell/lib/* usr/lib
   mv opt/novell/lib64/* usr/lib64
   rm -rf opt/novell/lib*
         
       

4. We push around some messages:

   
         
   mv opt/novell/iprint/share/locale usr/share/
         
       

5. We push around (and convert in the process) some icons:

   
         
   mkdir -p usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/apps/
   convert opt/novell/iprint/share/icons/iprint_32.gif \
           usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/apps/iprint.png
   mkdir -p usr/share/icons/kdeclassic/32x32/apps
   convert opt/novell/iprint/share/icons/iprint_32.gif \
           usr/share/icons/kdeclassic/32x32/apps/iprint.png
   
   mkdir -p usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/apps
   convert opt/novell/iprint/share/icons/iprint_16.gif \
           usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/apps/iprint.png
   mkdir -p usr/share/icons/kdeclassic/16x16/apps
   convert opt/novell/iprint/share/icons/iprint_16.gif \
           usr/share/icons/kdeclassic/16x16/apps/iprint.png
   
   rm -rf opt/novell/iprint/share/
         
       

6. We move around a few binaries:

   
         
   mkdir -p usr/bin
   mv opt/novell/iprint/bin/* usr/bin/
   rm -rf opt/novell/iprint/bin
         
       

7. We move around some plugins:

   
         
   mkdir -p usr/lib/iprint
   mv opt/novell/iprint/plugin/* usr/lib/iprint/
   rm -rf opt/novell/iprint/
         
       

8. We move around some desktop links:

   
         
   mkdir -p usr/share/applications/kde/
   mv opt/kde3/share/applications/novell-iprint.desktop  usr/share/applications/kde/
   
   mkdir usr/share/autostart
   mv opt/kde3/share/autostart/novell-iprint.desktop usr/share/autostart/
   
   mkdir -p usr/share/gnome/autostart
   mv opt/gnome/share/autostart/novell-iprint.desktop usr/share/gnome/autostart
         
       

9. We handle some plugins:

   
         
   mkdir -p usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
   mkdir -p usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
   mkdir -p usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/
   cd usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
   rm ./*
   ln -s ../../iprint/npnipp* ./
   cd ../../firefox/plugins/
   rm -rf ./*
   ln -s ../../iprint/npnipp* ./
   cd ../../iceweasel/plugins/
   ln -s ../../iprint/npnipp* ./
   
   rm -rf opt
         
       

10. We clean up some odds and ends that are not needed any more because we put our files in default directories:

    
          
    rm -rf etc/ld.so.conf.d
    rm -rf etc/profile.d
          
        

11. We leave etc/opt/novell/iprint/libiprint.conf in place because we suspect it has been hardcoded here and there.

We modify some files that contain SuSE-specific path info:

We modify the Debian control file to make the package depend on libglitz1:

sed -i '/^Depends:/ s%$%, libglitz1%g' DEBIAN/control

We truncate DEBIAN/conffiles

We update the md5 checksums:

find -type f -exec md5sum {} \; |grep -v DEBIAN|sed 's%\.\/%%g' > DEBIAN/md5sums

We create a directory /var/log/novell/iprint/client and modify the postinstall script to set permissions on it

Then we build a package from it: