hi, * Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@o2.pl> [2004-11-04 13:44]: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:06:01PM -0600, Zach Garner wrote: [...] > > What I meant by standard roughly translates into available on most/all > > unix or linux systems. The format of a .deb file is special as far as I > > can tell. I can't create or manipulate them without using dpkg-deb or > > one of the other scripts. > > Well you can. But then it became even more hard to do. > You can use ar, tar and gzip. > > You seems to ignore fact that Debian contains almost only free software, > and it is almost only build on Debian's autobuilders (excluding non-free > and contrib). So building scripts are designed to simplify *this* task, and > not packaging binary files. > Sorry that's the way it is. We're targeted at FREE SOFTWARE and our policy > demands to build it with another free software available on our > autobuiders. > > It is however possible to build binary package in other way. > AFAIR there is some manual on the net how to easily do that. > > Quick google search: > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/ you can also have a look on checkinstall, maybe it helps. regards nico -- Nico Golde - 310777820@ICQ nico@ngolde.de | nion@gmx.net | http://www.ngolde.de GPG: FF46 E565 5CC1 E2E5 3F69 C739 1D87 E549 7364 7CFF Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?
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