I'm working on a project that [1] that aims to bring the PKGBUILD format used
on Arch Linux to Debian. That's besides the point though, and it's mainly just
to help showcase what I'm doing brought me to my current issue.
Anyway, part of the process that my program previously used is running 'dpkg
-b' to build a directory layout into a .deb package. This always seemed to take
forever though, and I've since gone with just creating the .deb package
manually [2] with tar and ar.
When I try installing the packages my program builds (with 'apt install
./debname.deb'), it works fine. But if I then try to reinstall the package
(with 'apt reinstall ./debname.deb'), this error keeps popping up for some
reason (the variables surrounded by '{}' represent values in a control file):
Repository is broken: {Package}:{Architecture} (= {Version}) has no Size
information
Is there anything I'm doing wrong when creating the .deb package (mainly
concerned with link 2 where the actual package creation takes place)? I've
tried looking at 'dpkg-deb/build.c' in dpkg's source code [3] to see what dpkg
might be doing when building packages, but nothing I tried got me to any
solution.
[1]: https://github.com/makedeb/makedeb
[2]:
https://github.com/makedeb/makedeb/blob/alpha/src/functions/fakeroot_build.sh#L44-L53
[3]:
https://salsa.debian.org/dpkg-team/dpkg/-/blob/main/dpkg-deb/build.c#L504-513
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Hunter Wittenborn
https://www.hunterwittenborn.com
https://github.com/hwittenborn
