Re: Building debian packs
On Thursday 22 August 2002 23:41, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:31:35PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am not able to build debian packages out of the KDE source... (the
> > needed files are supplied directly via the KDE)
> >
> > I have the code installed and run:
> > dpkg-deb -b <root_of_source>
> > and i get the error that it can't open the DEBIAN dir. Ok i rename the
> > "debian"
> > dir to "DEBAIN" and then i get an error about parsing errors in the
> > DEBIAN/control file...
>
> AFAIK dpkg-deb -b is a very low-level tool that is invoked very late in
> the build process (once the executables are built and installed into a
> suitable directory structure).
>
> You probably want to use one of:
>
> $ fakeroot debian/rules binary
> or
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>
> the latter will sign your package(s) too
>
> > Please don't say that their are procompiled versions avail...
>
> Yes there are :-) (no: *you* said that! :-)
>
> [Random signatures can be uncanningly accurate sometimes...]
Hey, thanks it helped....
I came to dpkg-deb because the dpkg man page that "--build" will invoke
dpkg-deb so i thought this is the first place to go...
cheers,
Raffaele
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