On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:21:11AM -0500, Craig wrote: > > Hi all, > Here's what i'm trying to do: > > * Create a .DEB that contains only 2 simple binaries, plus a couple of > dependencies. (i'll have another package, tar ball for right now, for the > source code).
Deb packages contain binaries and dependencies and some doc. > Can that be done? You don't *REQUIRE* the source code to be in the .deb, do > you? Or is that how it works? Deb packages don't contain source. > I have done searches on google, debian.org, etc. but have not been able to find > a clear description of how to do this. > All the documentation i can find Which docs would these be? I think that between the debian-policy, developers-reference and maint-guide packages it is quite clear about how this all works. It is a lot of reading, but it is necessary reading. If you try to take "short-cuts" by not reading all the doc, you will likely end up with broken packages. > talks about 2 types of .DEBs: source & > binaries. Not quite. Source packages typically consist of an original tarball, a .diff, and a .dsc (unless it is a native package, which doesn't have a .diff). > They then go into detail about creating a source DEB (using dh_make, > dpkg-buildpackage, etc). First, there is an error in your terminology. There is no such thing as a "source deb". It is simply a Debian source package. Second, yes you will have to do this step before creating the binary package. > I have also looked at the man pages for several tools > i've seen mentioned. > I did find this: "http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/"; which was very > useful. But it mainly centers on a complete package build, including source > code. > I tried creating a './debian' directory in the project and creating the required > files (control, changelog, etc) myself, but that didn't seem to work well: There are tools that will allow you to create and maintain these files in the proper format. For the changelog, use "dch". For the control file, start with dh_make to create the control file and then hand-edit it to give it a proper description, dependencies and so forth. > carsnau@wombat:~/DEB/rpmon-1.0$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot > parsechangelog/debian: error: unrecognised line, at changelog line 3 > dpkg-buildpackage: unable to determine source package > > > Is there a web page anyone can point me to which describes a binary-only .deb > creation, or any suggestions/hints/help people can offer? Please install and read the three aforementioned documentation packages. Our web site has links to these documents in various forms as well. Ben -- nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ pgp key fingerprint = 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] [ gpg key fingerprint = 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
