On 15-May-2001 Niall Young wrote: > I'm creating a bunch of custom task packages, mostly empty > with dependencies but a few will need to contain configs > and pre-filled debconf entries. > > It's not too clear from the NMG and the DDR on how to do > this. I can create empty task packages fine, I'm just not > too sure how to insert a bunch of files and not compile > a tarball in the process. >
the 'tarball' is the source for the package. Even an 'empty' package must have a source tree containing only the debian/ directory.
