Re: Hopeful new packager needs help.

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to this list. I am attempting to package a few apps, that I believe
> are worth while in the Debian community. I am having trouble though. I have
> read the First time HOWTO and the deb-make doc. They seem pretty forward,
> but I must be missing something. When I come to the step of running
> debian/rules it exists with an error 1, which I'm not quite sure what that
> means.

Likely it didn't find a Makefile, since you said there is none.

> The first package I am attempting to package is a binary source and
> has no make file as I keep reading is needed (this could be where I'm lost).
> Can you package binaries? (I assume you must be able to).

Well, you *can*, but it's dumb if you have the source, since that way
it cannot be used on other architectures.

Try to get the sources, compile them, and then just fill in the
command needed to compile in the rules file.

	Falk