On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 09:12:27 -0400, Person, Roderick wrote: > I'm trying to package a .deb.
debian-mentors may be a more suitable list for discussing packaging. > I have read and followed the docs and the HOWTOs. I must be missing > something. I get a error 1 when running rules script. That's not a particularly useful description of your problem. Does it do something? Does make -f debian/rules -n provide a hint? > Can someone point me to a nice tutorial on the web or give me some helpful > hints? There's some material under http://www.debian.org/devel/ > Is there a generic way to build .debs? No, but use of tools like dh-make/debhelper makes packaging a lot easier than writing everything by hand. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
