Re: Manual creation of dpkg package

[Dan Dragos <ddragos1.9021@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011, Dan Dragos wrote:
> ultrascale.conf is present but /opt/Ecrion/Resources folder and files are
> not existant.
>
> In my script I build the tar.gz the control files the scripts, the ar with
> correct file order etc.
> Why are the files not present.

Are you sure the files are in the correct order in the tar file?

Why not let dpkg-deb -b do the job of creating the package? You should
just create a directory with the files and a DEBIAN sub-directory, it
would be much easier for your script.

Is there any reason why you don't want to have debian packaging files
alongside the specs file instead of doing some less-than-perfect
auto-conversion?

Do you know that "alien" already exists to convert between RPM and DEB?

Cheers,
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It works, the problem was that I was not uninstalling the previous package on the machine.
I had to depend on a spec file from rpm and we were making on centos and did not want introduce other programs like dpkg-deb.
The small perl script is attached.
About alien, the boss did not like the idea of alien...

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