Re: creating debs

[Peter Palfrader <palfrader@writeme.com>]

Hi Sven!

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:

> Given a source tarball, how to best install that into the system?
> 
> My suggestion would be to create a .deb archive and to then install that
> using dpkg -i. Now, I have never created my own .deb apart from doing this 
> with make-kpkg and apt-get source -b, so I am not familiar with the 
> "internals" or much more the necessary contents of a debian archive for
> it to be one.


Check out
	http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/index.html/
and
	http://www.debian.org/~elphick/manuals.html/maint-guide/

HTH
				yours,
				peter
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