Re: creating custom binary packages?

["Kit Peters" <popefelix@gmail.com>]

A brief note about what I'm doing - I'm installing Debian on a couple of boxes and putting them into "kiosk mode" via Jim Massey's twm-kiosk package (http://kiosk.mozdev.org/twm-kiosk.html
).  Originally, I had wanted to wrap up my "kiosk mode" Firefox in a deb, and probably do the same for twm-kiosk, but I decided instead to use as many stock debs as possible, and only roll my changes into debs.  And I ended up writing simple Makefiles for everything, and building the debs that way.

On 6/28/06, Kit Peters <popefelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Checkinstall doesn't really seem to be what I'm looking for.  However, I did have good luck with this article that Monsieur Pilon linked: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/336

On 6/27/06, Roberto Sanchez < roberto@familiasanchez.net > wrote:

Kit Peters wrote:
> I have a need to create my own .debs for a box at work, and I'd like to
> use precompiled stuff when I can.  How do I create a custom .deb from a
> precompiled package, a la firefox or MySQL?  I've looked at the New
> Maintainer's Guide (though perhaps not as in depth as I ought) and I
> didn't see anything there.  Can anyone give me some pointers?
>
> Kit Peters

If your package does not require pree- or post-install steps (or if you
can do them by hand), then check out checkinstall.

-Roberto

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