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Re: Building 'internal' deb packages?



* Vincent W.S. Tam <vincent.tam@aib.net> [020505 13:49]:
> Dear all,
> 
> We're using Debian 2.2 for most of our systems. We've also tried bunk's
> packages to include some early Woody packages added to our machines to
> allow us to run kernel 2.4. 
> 
> Now, for some reasons we'd like to build our own packages. (e.g. want to
> use newer version of the software not included in Debian distribution,
> internal written software)
> 
> Is there a recommended way to build and name these internal packages so
> that they can work peacefully with the 'official' packages? We've
> checked the Debian Policy and seems didn't find this kind of
> information.
> 
> Anybody can give us some guidelines? :)

I've heard checkinstall often does a good job. 
 
> Thanks a lot!,
> Vincent

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Karsten Heymann <karsten.heymann@gmx.de> <karsten@ecology.uni-kiel.de>
CAU-University Kiel, Germany
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