Re: Creating packages from files

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:38:03PM +0100, Christian Lynbech wrote:
> I seem to remember coming across a small utility that would allow you
> to create a (fake) deb file directly from a list of files, but I
> cannot no longer what it was supposed to be called and my cursory
> browsing of the package list did not seem to help.
> 
> Does this ring a bell with anyone?

The easiest way is possibly to pack them in a tar.gz and run alien on
the tarball.
                cu andreas