Hi all, in our scientific collaboration we are currently using a big pile of software which comes bundled with its own installer (pacman). Since doing a full repackage, of all subcomponents is currently out of the question I would like to package this into a binary only .deb. I somehow succeeded, but would like to receive a hint from experts.
I usually use a clean pbuilder/cowbuilder environment to install this huge package under /opt/mypackage. Most of its files are living there so no big problem, albeit one variant adds some changes to /etc. My questions: (1) Is there a standard way to detect which files have been added to the system? Right now I'm doing a full find of the whole "system" before and after and extract the changed files. (2) Right now I then manually move all the changed files into a temporary directory, create a DEBIAN directory along with the necessary files (md5sum, control, ..) and call dpkg -b and go for a coffee. However, especially this second step is rather tedious when it has to be done multiple times. Is there a better way of doing it? Thanks for a new insight Cheers Carsten -- Dr. Carsten Aulbert - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Callinstrasse 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Phone/Fax: +49 511 762-17185 / -17193 http://www.top500.org/system/9234 | http://www.top500.org/connfam/6/list/31 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
