Paul Tagliamonte writes:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Savvas Radevic wrote:
> > P.S. I believe that Debian supports and helps with packaging open
> > source software, not closed source and proprietary software.
>
> And thus spake the wiki:
>
> debian-mentors is for the mentoring of new a
Thanks for the pointer. I never tried the second way I mentioned, but I saw
that it is possible (the tutorial is old though):
https://synthesize.us/HOWTO_make_a_deb_archive_without_dpkg
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On 19.01.2012 20:49, Savvas Radevic wrote:
> 2. a dirty way of doing it, creating your own package using the "ar"
> command (a .deb package is basically an .ar archive):
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_%28Unix%29
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Please use dpkg-deb --build or
Well, you basically have three ways (that I know of):
1. checkinstall - In my opinion as an amateur packager, it is by far the
easiest solution. Maybe others disagree, I'd suggest it for trivial binary
packages.
2. a dirty way of doing it, creating your own package using the "ar"
command (a .deb p
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Savvas Radevic wrote:
>> Can someone recommend me a Debian's binary package for use as an example
>> to create mine?
>
>
> Have you tried with the checkinstall command?
That's not really a sustainable - there's no reason to resort to such
hacks, even though you d
>
> Can someone recommend me a Debian's binary package for use as an example
> to create mine?
>
Have you tried with the checkinstall command?
P.S. I believe that Debian supports and helps with packaging open source
software, not closed source and proprietary software.
2012/1/18 Ivan Reche
> Thanks for the tips. It seems like a nice solution.
>
> Where do I find good documentation for the creation of binary packages? I
> couldn't find much material about it, except for an old tutorial (
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/).
Thanks for the tips. It seems like a nice solution.
Where do I find good documentation for the creation of binary packages? I
couldn't find much material about it, except for an old tutorial (
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/).
Can someone recommend me a Deb
Hi,
On 01/16/2012 03:27 PM, Ivan Reche wrote:
The package is just a directory with lots of binaries and it likes to
install itself in /opt. Besides that, it needs to set some environment
variables (similar to JAVA_HOME and friends).
What is the best way to approach this? Do I change the PATH en
This is my first post in this list and I couldn't find an older post in the
archives which answered my questions.
I need to package a commercial application for automatic installation in a
cluster, as well as not messing up the system. I want it to integrate well
with the Debian environment.
The
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