I was under the impression that the configuration rules were what the package would run after it was loaded. However, when I did a fakeroot against my simplistic package, it actually ran the config rules which surprised me.
Can someone clarify. I'm looking to create the simple .deb package, then put in a 'post load' method which runs the binary i'm putting in the package.
Also (really really stupid question).. where do i get these sources for the packages you guys mentioned?
Eric
Bernhard R. Link wrote:
* Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030807 21:54]: > But in following the instructions in the doc it tells me to create some > directories with my source in them, then use dh-make first. But dh_make > keeps telling me it can't find my source package.
dh_make is optimized to create source packages that automatically create the binary package. While it is an also be a nice (though not the easiest) way to create a .deb out of some upstream binaries, you have to understand debhelper a bit more than when using it for waht it was made. The easiest way is to start with an empty source, i.e. create an emtpy directory containing a version number, like mkdir blafasel-1.0 cd blafasel-1.0 dh_make -n -s -e [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which should create a debian/-subdirectory with everything needed in it. In debian/rules just remove the calls to make, and you can already create an (almost) empty ".deb", by calling "fakeroot ./debian/rules". (or dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -B, if you prefer this). Then just add the proper commands in debian/rules to get the programs installed to debian/tmp or debian/<name> depending on what DH_COMPAT you have set and remove those files in debian/ you do not need, and perhaps adopting the control and changelog (and the copyright-file as it will contain GPL by default) would be a nice idea.
Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link
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