On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:49 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > Karl Bowden wrote: > > On 8 March 2010 22:00, Dave Hall <dave.h...@skwashd.com> wrote:
> > I can't help with the build side of things, all my package > > building > > isn't automated. > What do you use for your package building? I have been using > dpkg-buildpackage so far, and it seems to be reasonable once you have > all the control files set up, although it is a bit clunky sometimes. I use dpkg-deb for my meta packages. I think my blog post of that is linked from the reprepro post. For the rest I use dpkg-buildpackage triggered in various ways. For example some of my php apps are built using phing which does a full build from svn. My PEAR packages are built from scratch, I really disliked the Debian's pear-package tool did things. > Even though i've been a sold-out Debian/Ubuntu user since 2003, i > must say that Red Hat make it a lot easier to learn to package in RPM > format than Debian & Ubuntu do in dpkg format. I switched to Debian back when woody was testing iirc. RH7 drove me insane, but it did teach me how to source compile pretty much an entire LAMP server. Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
