On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:46:00PM -0800, Kevin Ross wrote: > > Building your own Debian packages is actually quite easy. See: > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/336 > That is part 1, which only discusses setting up the build environment. Part 2 has the rest: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/337 > If you're just grabbing the latest upstream tarball, > there's really no need to build a package. The only real benefit > of creating a package is to share with someone. Just do the > usual, untar, make, and make install. You can install all > of your locally built stuff into /usr/local/... without any > problems at all. > > However, if you want to share your packages with others, so > that they can just install without having to build from source > like you did, then by all means, build a package and share! > Actually, I package software that I have no intention of keeping. The primary reason is that it ensures that things like upgrades don't leave cruft. It also ensures that if I decide to remove the package, it gets all the bits and pieces. It also means that if I want to install the software on more than one machine, I have an easy and portable way of moving it around. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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