Hi, ive made my first debian package, Mandrakes drakxtools, it contains a number of configuration tools, but my primary reason for packaging is to provide diskdrake.
Diskdrake is a graphical partition manager, it allows resizing parititions etc. I originally thought this would be good during installation, but as it requires X and gtk i dont think it would be suitable. drakxtools also contains configuration tools XFdrake, keyboarddrake, mousedrake, lspcidrake, printerdrake, netdrake. drakxtools are nearly totally perl scripts, my perl skills arent that good, i couldnt work out how to efficiently seperate diskdrake from the rest, so the package contains all the tools. One problem is that these configuration tools all bahave as they should on a Mandrake system, they havent been modified to suit debian yet.... as i said i primarily wanted to package diskdrake. The various drakxtools are also called by lothar, which is a mandrake sponsored hardware detection program. lothar has been packaged by Dan Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it is waiting for a sponsor Im not an official debian maintainer yet (but want to be) if anyone feels upto it i could do with some advice/feedback on my efforts so far. I still have a fair bit of work to do before this package is ready, but diskdrake does work. The package as it is so far is at ftp://computernerds.com.au/debian/drakxtools/ this is a permanent modem connection, so expect it to be slow. Thanks Glenn McGrath