Building a completely new Debian package isn't easy to do, but you sometimes can use existing packages to build packages for newer software versions, that aren't available by the repositories. I seldom did it that way, I prefer to build packages using checkinstall and don't care for it's limitations.
To build dummy packages I used equivs http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html . Building kernel packages is easy to do, following the information given by the Internet and there's a way to automatically build Debian packages for all kind of software using dpkg, but IIRC it has also limitations. Building "regular" packages isn't a task for beginners, building "private" packages IMO isn't that hard to do, e.g. "make love, not install" ;), so replace "make install" by "checkinstall", this doesn't work always, but is easy to do for deb and rpm packages. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1371447556.1144.36.camel@archlinux
