Building packages using tar and ar (was: About control files)

2005-03-18 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 06:05:14PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > [...] > ... if you use dh_gencontrol(1), or invoke dpkg-gencontrol manually. Of > course a package can also be created along > > mkdir tmp > cp whatnot/ tmp/ > mkdir tmp/DEBIAN > cat >tmp/DEBIAN/control > type whatever you li

Re: About control files

2005-03-17 Thread Lucas Di Pentima
Thanks all of you that answered my question :-) I'm finishing some details so Lucas Wall can check out my new package! Regards, Lawrence Williams wrote, On 17/03/05 13:12: Hi, DEBIAN/control is automatically generated during package building and is used by the resulting .deb debian/control is the o

Re: About control files

2005-03-17 Thread Frank Küster
Lucas Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On 03/17/2005 12:59 PM, Lucas Di Pentima wrote: >> Hello! >> I'm reading the Policy Manual so I can correct any errors I have in >> my >> control file before sending my program to Lucas Wall, that had accepted >> to be my sponsor. >> Reading this URL: >> h

Re: About control files

2005-03-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.17.1713 +0100]: > Right. The source control file ./debian/control is the one that you > modify. ./DEBIAN/control is created by dpkg-gencontrol *from* the > data in the source control file. ... and the changelog file. -- Please do not send

Re: About control files

2005-03-17 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
Lucas Di Pentima a écrit : I see that the source package control file must be in "debian/control", and the binary control file must be in "DEBIAN/control"...am I right? they are different directories? I didn't knew that. that DEBIAN directory is the one generated in a binary package, where the

Re: About control files

2005-03-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:59:40PM -0300, Lucas Di Pentima wrote: > Hello! > > I'm reading the Policy Manual so I can correct any errors I have in my > control file before sending my program to Lucas Wall, that had accepted > to be my sponsor. > > Reading this URL: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/

Re: About control files

2005-03-17 Thread Lucas Wall
On 03/17/2005 12:59 PM, Lucas Di Pentima wrote: Hello! I'm reading the Policy Manual so I can correct any errors I have in my control file before sending my program to Lucas Wall, that had accepted to be my sponsor. Reading this URL: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html ...

Re: About control files

2005-03-17 Thread Lawrence Williams
Hi, DEBIAN/control is automatically generated during package building and is used by the resulting .deb debian/control is the one you write yourself, with Descriptions and Build-Depends and stuff. Hope this clarifies things for you :) Lawrence Lucas Di Pentima wrote: Hello! I'm reading the Poli

About control files

2005-03-17 Thread Lucas Di Pentima
Hello! I'm reading the Policy Manual so I can correct any errors I have in my control file before sending my program to Lucas Wall, that had accepted to be my sponsor. Reading this URL: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html ...I see that the source package control file must