Re: Creating deb packages

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating
> deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out
> how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out),
> but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after unpacking it?
> Thanks.

You also might be able to find this information using the new index of the
Debian web site.  Go to

	http://insite.verisim.com/search/debian/advanced

and try the following query:

	build* debian package*

I'm sure other queries will find similar information.  (The stars (*), by
the way, are globbing characters and will match any suffix of those words.)
                                             
                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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