Wayne Cuddy wrote: > I have just installed Debian Hamm so I am new to this distribution. I > have been a long time user of RedHat. I was quite pleased with the > book 'Maximum RPM' describing the packing building and usage of the > RPM system. Is there something similar for dpkg? I downloaded > something called the 'dpkg programmers manual' which I don't think I > am the target audience for. I would like the complete procedure for > building binary and source .deb files. A small sample walk-through > would be nice. If anyone can point me to this information or send me > anything I would greatly appreciate it.
Install the package named packaging-manual and look at /usr/doc/packaging-manual/ It gets a little complicated after section 2, but you'll understand the basics of building a binary package by hand if you read that far. The rest is understandable, it just takes some work. :-) -- see shy jo
