On 26/10/17 20:30, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote:
>>
>> I need to be able to hack some of the source files due to different
>> file paths, and then build as debs.
>>
> According to the man page from alien
>
>
> -g, --generate
> Generate a temporary directory suitable for build
On 26-10-17 20:09, John Crisp wrote:
On 26 October 2017 19:45:29 CEST, Vincent Bentley
wrote:
Have you tried alien?
apt-cache show alien
No, but I'm not sure that it is a full on solution. it gets you out of a
hole for odd packages as far as I remember? And you don't end up with a so
If they are Perl scripts you can simple extract the contents, that is,
the actual scripts and place them in a dedicated directory. However,
you have to consider if your scripts call other scripts which should
be in a defined path.
That is what I would do avoiding having to deal with .deb conversio
On 26 October 2017 19:45:29 CEST, Vincent Bentley
wrote:
>Have you tried alien?
>
>apt-cache show alien
>
>
No, but I'm not sure that it is a full on solution. it gets you out of a
hole for odd packages as far as I remember? And you don't end up with a source
package?
I need to be able
Have you tried alien?
apt-cache show alien
On 26/10/17 18:22, John Crisp wrote:
> I have a little idea I have been tossing around in brain for ages but I'm
> stuck.
>
> I'm quite used to building rpms but no experience with debs.
>
> I have some stuff I'd like to experiment with on Devuan bu
I have a little idea I have been tossing around in brain for ages but I'm stuck.
I'm quite used to building rpms but no experience with debs.
I have some stuff I'd like to experiment with on Devuan but need to convert the
srpms to deb format.
Most of it is not actually compiled binaries jus
