Re: Example package

1998-04-26 Thread Bob Hilliard
The source package for hello is in the source directory of the mirrors. Look under debian/hamm/hamm/source/misc for the following three files: -rw-r--r-- 1 maor debadmin 4007 Nov 16 13:54 hello_1.3-14.2.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 maor debadmin 619 Nov 16 13:54 hello_1.3-14.2.ds

Re: Example package

1998-04-26 Thread Rob Tillotson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it would all be clear if I just had a tar of a directory tree > that was set up to make a package (like hello). Is it possible to > deconstruct hello.deb, or is there source somewhere...? I'm a newbie at this to

Example package

1998-04-26 Thread Ian Bicking
I'm trying to make a package for Squeak, and I've collected all the files, everything compiles cleanly, and there's nothing complicated about any of it. But, I'm not sure how to actually make the package. The documentation does a good job of telling me *what* a package is, but a poor job of how I

My first attempt at a Debian package - comments?

1998-04-26 Thread gcross
Well here goes... I have written a C/tk GUI interface to dpkg for browsing installed Debian packages. I have also created a package for it for the benefit of others. This is my first attempt at packaging, and the package installs fine on my (bo) system, but it has not been tested beyond that. I