Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Need some help: Using distributed help text files, instead of "#include" built in

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 22, 2003, at 12:21 AM, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> What needs to be done (not by me, as I have no knowledge how to do 
> this):
>
> -help/Makefile.am: check, if I done the changes correct

I've put in changes to install the help files; it worked, at least when 
I built from CVS source and did a "make install".

> -add help text files to packaging for other platforms (deb, rpm, ...)

Hmm.  For RPM, it appears we might install Ethereal's "manuf" and 
Diameter dictionary files in "/etc"; perhaps they should go into 
"/usr/share/ethereal" instead.

If so, the help files should go into "/usr/share/ethereal/help".

I don't see anything obvious in the SVR4 packaging stuff to specify 
what files get installed; I assume the package is built by doing a 
"make install" to some directory and packaging up the stuff under that 
directory.

I infer from the fact that "debian/ethereal-common.files" has a line 
"/usr/share/ethereal/*" that a Debian package will automatically 
include everything that gets installed under "/usr/share/ethereal",  
which would included "/usr/share/ethereal/help".  I don't know whether 
that'd include the files *in* that directory, however.