Re: Building a package for a web application
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, liran tal wrote:
While attempting to run dpkg-buildpackage to create a .deb package of the
current directory
where I'm at I'm receiving the error message:
dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or
directory
my debian/ directory reads the following files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran 126 2007-09-16 10:52 changelog
-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran 526 2007-09-17 01:57 control
-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran 461 2007-08-22 02:39 copyright
-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran 17 2007-09-16 10:58 dirs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran 1432 2007-09-16 09:49 postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran 535 2007-09-16 03:41 postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran 438 2007-09-16 05:11 preinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran 2410 2007-09-16 09:50 README
-rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran 23 2007-09-16 20:56 rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran 336 2007-09-16 09:52 watch
where as the rules file is actually empty (filled with #)
An empty rules file won't get you where you want to go.
Take a look at the debian/rules file for some existing web application;
there are many in Debian these days. See if you can find one very similar
to the one you want to package.
If you're more generally confused, you should check out the New
Maintainers Guide <http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/>.
-- Asheesh.
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