Re: Packages

[kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

rshutt@ravenet.com (Randall Shutt)  wrote on 15.02.96 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.960215082951.3145A-100000@extacy.tical.com>:

> > dselect). Maybe there is same way of preparing .deb package from normal
> > one in usual .tgz format??
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
>
>      Makeing .deb's is VERY simple.  Too bad dpkg-deb doesnt have a
> manual page.  Basically, to get an idea of what you have to do, use

Well, the following shell script will do it. Input a Slackware package,  
output a Debian package.

Maybe something like this should go into the dpkg package?

For package names, maybe you should call them localxyz to avoid clashing  
with a future Debian package.

#!/bin/sh
# This is a shell archive (produced by GNU sharutils 4.1).
# To extract the files from this archive, save it to some FILE, remove
# everything before the `!/bin/sh' line above, then type `sh FILE'.
#
# Made on 1996-02-15 19:55 MET by <root@khms>.
# Source directory was `/root/testdir'.
#
# Existing files will *not* be overwritten unless `-c' is specified.
#
# This shar contains:
# length mode       name
# ------ ---------- ------------------------------------------
#   1711 -rwxr-xr-x slack2deb
#
touch -am 1231235999 $$.touch >/dev/null 2>&1
if test ! -f 1231235999 && test -f $$.touch; then
  shar_touch=touch
else
  shar_touch=:
  echo
  echo 'WARNING: not restoring timestamps.  Consider getting and'
  echo "installing GNU \`touch', distributed in GNU File Utilities..."
  echo
fi
rm -f 1231235999 $$.touch
#
# ============= slack2deb ==============
if test -f 'slack2deb' && test X"$1" != X"-c"; then
  echo 'x - skipping slack2deb (file already exists)'
else
  echo 'x - extracting slack2deb (text)'
  sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'slack2deb' &&
#!/bin/bash
X
#    Minimal conversion of a Slackware package to a Debian package
#    Copyright (C) 1996 Kai Henningsen <kai@khms.westfalen.de>
#
#    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
#    (at your option) any later version.
#
#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#    GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
#    Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
X
usage(){
X	echo
X	echo Usage:
X	echo $0 arch.tar.gz debname debversion myemail '"debdescription"'
X	echo
X	echo Minimal conversion of a Slackware package to a Debian package
X	echo "  arch.tar.gz        - the Slackware package to convert"
X	echo "  debname            - the name of the package to create"
X	echo "  debversion         - the version number"
X	echo "  myemail            - your email address"
X	echo "  \"debdescription\"   - a description string"
X	echo
X	echo For best effect, run as root
X	echo Will not preserve groups and/or users that don\'t exist
X	echo on your system
X	echo
X	exit 255
}
X
[ $# != 5 ] && usage ;
X
work=/tmp/slack2deb.$$
X
mkdir $work
X
tar -x -C $work -z -f $1
X
mkdir $work/DEBIAN
X
cat >$work/DEBIAN/control <<EOF
Package: $2
Version: $3
Maintainer: $4
Description: $5
EOF
X
dpkg-deb -b $work
X
dpkg-name $work.deb
X
rm -rf $work
X
SHAR_EOF
  $shar_touch -am 0215195596 'slack2deb' &&
  chmod 0755 'slack2deb' ||
  echo 'restore of slack2deb failed'
  shar_count="`wc -c < 'slack2deb'`"
  test 1711 -eq "$shar_count" ||
    echo "slack2deb: original size 1711, current size $shar_count"
fi
exit 0

MfG Kai