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Re: How to create .deb of flat files?



On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:40:02PM -0700, Maria Rodriguez wrote:
> I've got a handful of regular flat text files that I would like to
> make into a .deb but I'm not familiar with doing anything that doesn't
> require a compile.  Is it simply doing an "install -m 644 *.txt
> debian/path/to/file" or something equivalent in the "install-stamp"
> section of the "rules" file or is there something more?

It's simple; just leave out all the parts of debian/rules that involve
compiling things.

I'd suggest picking some documentation package and using 'apt-get
source' to look at how it does things.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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