Re: Creating deb packages

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

> bcwhite>> Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating
> bcwhite>> deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out
> bcwhite>> how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out),
> bcwhite>> but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after unpacking it?
> bcwhite>> Thanks.
> bcwhite>
> bcwhite>The best way I found was to grab an existing package (hello is a good one)
> bcwhite>and learn how it does it.
>
> i tryed to trace it via ps but with not much luck
> the only thing i got from it is a general idea (gzip :)

You don't want to trace it.  If you read the "debian.rules" (or debian/rules)
file, you'll see how a package is built.  Basically, you create a directory
("debian-tmp") and create a directory structure just like that of the debian
system and place your files in there.  One call to "dpkg" will then create
a package for you from that directory structure.
                                             
                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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