[CMake] Deb and RPM package generation modules

[Mehdi Rabah]

Hi everyone,

In case someone is interested in linux package generation within cmake,
 I've started to improve the existing scripts
(http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMakeUserUseRPMTools
  and http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMakeUserUseDebian)
 to make both debian and rpm packaging easier.

Here is links to these modules with a concrete example:

https://gforge.inria.fr/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/CMake/DpkgDeb.cmake?root=cycabtk&view=markup
https://gforge.inria.fr/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/CMake/Rpmbuild.cmake?root=cycabtk&view=markup
https://gforge.inria.fr/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/Hugr/CMakeLists.txt?root=cycabtk&view=markup

The differences with the original scripts are that:
- you can customize the entire control or spec file directly
    from your cmake file (yet to finish for rpm)
- it doesn't need cpack anymore (I don't know if it's a good thing or not)
- the two modules have some common description variables
    (so it's easy to describe both rpm and deb packages)
- for the deb generation : use dpkg-deb. (building the archive directly with
ar seems
    to cause some weird problem, with gdebi or dpkg-scanpackages for
example).
    it doesn't rely on Md5Sum module anymore
- you can generate a package for each subproject (ie folders with a
CMakeLists
   and a PROJECT() macro) of your cmake project.
- can't generate the source package anymore :/  (yet)
   this was made using cpack, but It seems that cpack don't let you choose
what
   do you want to put in your source package... so I'm trying to do it
without cpack
   (btw, there is very really few documentation on cpack ^^)

There are still a few part that needs to be finished, but I think the major
improvement
will be to autodetect the dependencies (like dh_makeshlibs for deb package
building).

So I think that's it. Do you have any thoughts on all this?
CPack seems to have some cool feature like stripping binaries,
so do you think it will be a good idea to *really* integrate these modules
within cpack?

Regards,
--
Mehdi
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