[Neurodebian-devel] packages for iqr

[Michael Hanke]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:20:29AM +0000, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 17:15 -0700, Ulysses Bernardet wrote:
> > At the moment I'm creating binary debian packages by invoking cpack
> > from cmake. 
> 
> In essence, cpack is doing something along the lines of checkinstall,
> which leads to creating binary packages that are likely to work on the
> build machine as long as the environment doesn't change, but are
> unportable and violate every possible guideline that can be violated.
> 
> Therefore I highly recommend not wasting time on cpack unless you need
> Windows installers for the creation of which it might turn out to be
> useful to a certain extent and just do the native packaging properly.

Well put, and pretty accurate.

Michael

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