Hello.
Last days I was trying to write some more complicated debconf scripts.
After making some changes I had two way to include them in my package:
1) rebuild it once again which is very long task if package is quite big
2) simply use ar/tar tools to extract, replace and make new deb package
I was looking for some tool which could automate second solution, and
I didn't find anything... is there any tool for that?
I can't believe that noone else had similar problem as mine.
So the question is: is there any tool which will allow me to replace some
file in binary package?
That's how I can imagine it:
[ replacing file in binary package ]
deb-fix --replace package.config package_2.3-1_i386.deb
[ extract particular file from binary package ]
deb-fix --extract foo package_2.3-1_i386.deb
[ modify some header in control file, so httpd will be removed from
dependencies ]
deb-fix --remove --header=Depends httpd package_2.3-1_i386.deb
[ modify changelog in binary package, this will extract .deb and
launch $EDITOR changelog ]
deb-fix --edit changelog package_2.3-1_i386.deb
deb-fix is of course only an idea for the name. And above situations are
examples too, but I think there are more similar situations where such tool
would be very useful. In addition deb-fix could modify .dsc and .changes
files accordingly.
If there is no such tool, then I'll try to write something on my own ;)
regards
fEnIo
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