thx to all for the responses. I'm slowly making progress here. Could
someone distinguish the configuration section and how that applies to
debian packages for me (the eternal newbie).
I was under the impression that the configuration rules were what the
package would run after it was loaded. However, when I did a fakeroot
against my simplistic package, it actually ran the config rules which
surprised me.
Can someone clarify. I'm looking to create the simple .deb package, then
put in a 'post load' method which runs the binary i'm putting in the
package.
Also (really really stupid question).. where do i get these sources for
the packages you guys mentioned?
Eric
Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Eric Winger <ewinger@keyww.com> [030807 21:54]:
> > But in following the instructions in the doc it tells me to create
some
> > directories with my source in them, then use dh-make first. But
dh_make
> > keeps telling me it can't find my source package.
>
> dh_make is optimized to create source packages that automatically
create
> the binary package. While it is an also be a nice (though not the
> easiest) way to create a .deb out of some upstream binaries, you have
> to understand debhelper a bit more than when using it for waht it was
> made.
> The easiest way is to start with an empty source, i.e. create an
> emtpy directory containing a version number, like
> mkdir blafasel-1.0
> cd blafasel-1.0
> dh_make -n -s -e you@email.host
>
> which should create a debian/-subdirectory with everything needed in
it.
> In debian/rules just remove the calls to make, and you can already
> create an (almost) empty ".deb", by calling "fakeroot ./debian/rules".
> (or dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -B, if you prefer this).
> Then just add the proper commands in debian/rules to get the programs
> installed to debian/tmp or debian/<name> depending on what DH_COMPAT
> you have set and remove those files in debian/ you do not need, and
> perhaps adopting the control and changelog (and the copyright-file
> as it will contain GPL by default) would be a nice idea.
>
> Hochachtungsvoll,
> Bernhard R. Link
>
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