On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2011, Dan Dragos wrote:
> > ultrascale.conf is present but /opt/Ecrion/Resources folder and files are
> > not existant.
> >
> > In my script I build the tar.gz the control files the scripts, the ar
> with
> > correct file order etc.
> > Why are the files not present.
>
> Are you sure the files are in the correct order in the tar file?
>
> Why not let dpkg-deb -b do the job of creating the package? You should
> just create a directory with the files and a DEBIAN sub-directory, it
> would be much easier for your script.
>
> Is there any reason why you don't want to have debian packaging files
> alongside the specs file instead of doing some less-than-perfect
> auto-conversion?
>
> Do you know that "alien" already exists to convert between RPM and DEB?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
>
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It works, the problem was that I was not uninstalling the previous package
on the machine.
I had to depend on a spec file from rpm and we were making on centos and did
not want introduce other programs like dpkg-deb.
The small perl script is attached.
About alien, the boss did not like the idea of alien...

Attachment: debbuild.pl
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