Ok, I've managed to create a .deb package, experimented with putting
things in the rules file, installed my package locally. Learned a little
about purge and kind of have the gist of what y'all have been trying to
pound into my head.
But now I've run into a problem. For my first package, which is nothing
but a test. I want to be able to run some commands after my package has
been installed. Simple copy & execute commands.
I've modified the postinst.ex file, but my commands aren't being
executed. And the Debian New Maintainers' Guide says I shouldn't do this
(add to maintainer scripts) yet. So that tells me I should be putting my
configuration commands for the just installed package somewhere else.
Any ideas? Or is the postinst.ex file correct, and i may be not writing
the script correctly. I just added:
cp myFile /hardcoded path/
./path/myFile (wishing to run that file)
thx
Eric
