Re: Creating debian packages

1998-08-20 Thread Joey Hess
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 >

Re: Creating debian packages

1998-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, If programming by example appeals to you, please look at my example debian rules files at http://master.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/ These are live examples from my packages (though I have been tardy updating them since the freeze). I have tried to classify the packages by type

Re: Creating debian packages

1998-08-19 Thread Kyle Amon
Try... man deb and read all the SEE ALSO's too. It's pretty simple really. Maybe disect a few odd .deb files first to get the lay of the land. Also, I believe you need to have installed the deb package building tools as well since I don't believe they are part of the base install. - Kyle On

Creating debian packages

1998-08-19 Thread Wayne Cuddy
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 p