Thank you VERY much.. this is exactly what I was looking for.
* Blake
-----Original Message-----
From: Joey Hess
To: Blake Barnett
Cc: csj; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: 2/11/02 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Package a single binary.
Blake Barnett wrote:
> I've actually built quite a few packages for Debian. Just never a
> single binary. All the tools want a complete source-tree to do so. I
> have a pre-compiled, stand-alone binary (only requires libc6) and want
> to make a deb so I can make it part of a virtual package which will
> install all dependancies for a certain 'class/type' of machine I have.
>
> I also don't have the source, or say for example.. it's a perl
script..
> or some bash scripts.. how would you do it?
mkdir -p mypkg/usr/bin mypkg/DEBIAN
cp binary mypkg/usr/bin
cat > mypkg/DEBIAN/control
Package: mypackage
Version: 1
Architecture: i386
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Description: my little package
Don't expect much.
^D
dpkg-deb -b mypkg
Disclaimer: I know the debian packaging system a little bit better then
most people. :-) Nevertheless, this kind of quick-n-dirty thing can be
really handy.
--
see shy jo