On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:21:11AM -0500, Craig wrote: > Here's what i'm trying to do: > > * Create a .DEB that contains only 2 simple binaries, plus a couple of > dependencies. (i'll have another package, tar ball for right now, for the > source code).
Is this for your personal use, or is it meant to be distributed to others? > Can that be done? You don't *REQUIRE* the source code to be in the .deb, do > you? Or is that how it works? If the .deb is going to be distributed, it is almost useless without a corresponding source package. People would not be able to use your package on other architectures, rebuild it with a different configuration or link with different libraries, to give a few examples. > Is there a web page anyone can point me to which describes a binary-only > .deb creation, or any suggestions/hints/help people can offer? dpkg-deb(1) is the tool used to create binary .debs. For convenience, dpkg(1) will run dpkg-deb(1) if it looks like that is what you wanted. -- - mdz
