Kevin Jackson wrote:
Hi all,
I have been working on some tasks related to debian packaging.
So far I have :
- dpkg (creates a debian package from a directory)
- control (creates a dpkg control file)
and I'm working on :
- install, takes a .deb package and installs it
- more robust error checking etc for the current tasks
I want to flesh this out as a real antlib for those of us who are
debian users, and also so that we can offer an official .deb build of
Ant (hopefully for 1.7.1 time).
Right now the requirements are that you have a debian based
distribution installed, although a .deb seems to be similar to a jar
(it's just an archive with metadata), so I'd like to transition to a
pure Java version if possible at a later date.
Would this be suitable for the svn sandbox? Are there any objections
to my committing my progress so far? I only ask as I am in the middle
of updating to feisty fawn, and I'd like to version control my code in
case the worst should happen.
It could go in as a sandbox antlib, with the long term goal to make it a
real one. If we could create .deb files without running on a debian
distro, that would be very cool.
Have you got involved with the jpackage people? I was on their mail list
for a couple of months last year, but unsubscribed due to irreconcilable
differences.
-steve
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