SOETE Joël wrote: > Dear all, > > I run Debian 2.1r4 on a PC with an amd486 120 MHz and 16Mb of ram. > > I also recompile last release of Ckermit. To manage installed software, I > would like make a package with this soft. > I found also package sources (.dsc, orig.tar.gz and diff.gz files) of a > previous release (It is always easiest to learn new material with a good > example) and put it in "/mydir". > In this directory I do: dpkg-source ckermit....dsc and work fine by creating > the directory "/mydir/ckermit-193". > In this last directory I try to launch dpkg --build ... which failled
dpkg --build creates a .deb out of a given tree. You need to compile the package and packge it afterwards: ./debian/rules build (as user) ./debian/rules binary (as root) Regards, Joey -- No question is too silly to ask, but, of course, some are too silly to answer. -- Perl book Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.