Re: Maintaining local changes to packages

[Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>]

> way to produce local packages ... there probably already is, somewhere in  
> debmake or related stuff, it probably just needs mentioning in the FAQ or  

tar czf localstuff.tgz list of files
alien -n localstuff.tgz

(of course, it would be nice if there were an option to leave the .deb
file around when alien is done with it -- especially if I have one
tgz to install on a couple of local debian machines, not all of which
have 3x or 4x that much diskspace remaining [bad enough they need 2x...])


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