Re: package creation, basics

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:59:19 EST Ioannis Tambouras 
(ioannis@shell.flinet.com) wrote:

> 
>  After reading the debian-faq, I am having trouble creating a
>  debian package for local use. One day it will reach debian.org too,
>  I hope!
> 
> % ls
> control.tar.gz  data.tar.gz  debian-binary  control/  data/
> % /usr/bin/ar -rc ascii-1.2_1.deb  control.tar.gz  data.tar.gz  debian-binary
>  
> This ascii-1.2_1.deb (my unofficial debian package) is not recognized 
> by dpkg as a valid .deb package. What should I have done instead?

Don't use this lowlevel stuff. Use dpkg to build your packages !!!
	dpkg -b <package>

Phil.



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