2014-10-29 17:19 GMT+02:00 Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org>:
> Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> The manual states that --generate can be used to create the directory
>> structure for further manipulation.
>>
>> However, the command line sample given to get around building a *.deb will
>> result in a hidden file called "..deb" which is less than optimal. Here's a
>> better command line sample:
>>
>> sudo dpkg-deb --build . ../$(echo "$(grep Package DEBIAN/control | awk
>> {'print $2'})_$(grep Version DEBIAN/control | awk {'print $2'})_$(grep Arch
>> DEBIAN/control | awk {'print $2'}).deb")
>>
>> You're welcome. :)
>
> The package can be built from
> this temporary directory by running "dpkg\-deb \-\-build", passing it the
> generated directory.
>
> joey@darkstar:~/tmp>fakeroot dpkg-repack --generate dpkg-repack
> dpkg-repack: fakeroot run without its -u flag may corrupt some file
> permissions.
> dpkg-repack: dpkg-repack: created ./dpkg-repack-23441 for dpkg-repack
> joey@darkstar:~/tmp>dpkg-deb --build dpkg-repack-23441
> dpkg-deb: building package `dpkg-repack' in `dpkg-repack-23441.deb'.
Yes indeed. The source directory can be anything.
The main point is that the above recipe will extract the package's
name, version and arch from the control file to generate a meaningful
file name for the *.deb.
Martin-Éric
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