Re: Issue with installing manually created Debian archive with APT
On 7/31/21 11:20 PM, Hunter Wittenborn wrote:
> I'm working on a project that [1] that aims to bring the PKGBUILD format
> used on Arch Linux to Debian. That's besides the point though, and it's
> mainly just to help showcase what I'm doing brought me to my current issue.
>
> Anyway, part of the process that my program previously used is running
> 'dpkg -b' to build a directory layout into a .deb package. This always
> seemed to take forever though, and I've since gone with just creating
> the .deb package manually [2] with tar and ar.
>
> When I try installing the packages my program builds (with 'apt install
> ./debname.deb'), it works fine. But if I then try to reinstall the
> package (with 'apt reinstall ./debname.deb'), this error keeps popping
> up for some reason (the variables surrounded by '{}' represent values in
> a control file):
>
> Repository is broken: {Package}:{Architecture} (= {Version}) has no Size
> information
>
> Is there anything I'm doing wrong when creating the .deb package (mainly
> concerned with link 2 where the actual package creation takes place)?
> I've tried looking at 'dpkg-deb/build.c' in dpkg's source code [3] to
> see what dpkg might be doing when building packages, but nothing I tried
> got me to any solution.
The question is: why are you attempting to create the .deb yourself,
instead of using Debian tooling. Can't you simply build dpkg under Arch
and try to use it directly?
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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