Re: package creation, basics

1996-12-15 Thread Fabien NinolesA
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On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Ioannis Tambouras wrote:

 
  After reading the debian-faq, I am having trouble creating a
  debian package for local use. One day it will reach debian.org too,
  I hope!
 
 % ls
 control.tar.gz  data.tar.gz  debian-binary  control/  data/
 % /usr/bin/ar -rc ascii-1.2_1.deb  control.tar.gz  data.tar.gz  debian-binary
  
 
 This ascii-1.2_1.deb (my unofficial debian package) is not recognized 
 by dpkg as a valid .deb package. What should I have done instead?
 
 Ioannis Tambouras
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida

The best way to learn who to do it is to take a simple package (such as 
hello) and use dpkg-deb to extract both the contains (-x) and the control
files (-e) in a directory... After that, you can look at some of the src 
files.

And please, use dpkg-deb -b to build you're package. It's really mush 
easier and could avoid some errors.

Good luck!

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package creation, basics

1996-12-14 Thread Ioannis Tambouras

 After reading the debian-faq, I am having trouble creating a
 debian package for local use. One day it will reach debian.org too,
 I hope!

% ls
control.tar.gz  data.tar.gz  debian-binary  control/  data/
% /usr/bin/ar -rc ascii-1.2_1.deb  control.tar.gz  data.tar.gz  debian-binary
 

This ascii-1.2_1.deb (my unofficial debian package) is not recognized 
by dpkg as a valid .deb package. What should I have done instead?

Ioannis Tambouras
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida


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Re: package creation, basics

1996-12-14 Thread Philippe Troin

On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:59:19 EST Ioannis Tambouras 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 
  After reading the debian-faq, I am having trouble creating a
  debian package for local use. One day it will reach debian.org too,
  I hope!
 
 % ls
 control.tar.gz  data.tar.gz  debian-binary  control/  data/
 % /usr/bin/ar -rc ascii-1.2_1.deb  control.tar.gz  data.tar.gz  debian-binary
  
 This ascii-1.2_1.deb (my unofficial debian package) is not recognized 
 by dpkg as a valid .deb package. What should I have done instead?

Don't use this lowlevel stuff. Use dpkg to build your packages !!!
dpkg -b package

Phil.



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