Re: clean way to package 3rd party software

2008-07-17 Thread Nicolas Valcarcel
If you are trying yo check what's being installed by the package you can less in the .deb, there you will see all the files that your package includes. On 7/17/08, Pau Oliva Fora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carsten Aulbert wrote: >> (2) Right now I then manually move all the changed files into a

Re: clean way to package 3rd party software

2008-07-17 Thread Pau Oliva Fora
Carsten Aulbert wrote: > (2) Right now I then manually move all the changed files into a > temporary directory, create a DEBIAN directory along with the necessary > files (md5sum, control, ..) and call dpkg -b and go for a coffee. > > However, especially this second step is rather tedious when it

clean way to package 3rd party software

2008-07-16 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi all, in our scientific collaboration we are currently using a big pile of software which comes bundled with its own installer (pacman). Since doing a full repackage, of all subcomponents is currently out of the question I would like to package this into a binary only .deb. I somehow succeeded,