On Sep 16, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Francois Richard wrote: > Thanks Clint, > > I am going to look-up the links below, I am pretty new on the DEB packaging > in general and from what I have seen so far, a lot of the tutorial on the web > are mostly based on classic [ .configure | make | make install ] of an > application built in C. In this case I wanted to figure out the DEB > packaging in the context of a Java application. I'll read on more and will > stay in touch. >
Actually there's a lot of ambiguity in packaging that arise given Java's unique properties as a compiled, architecture independent platform. I wouldn't recommend *starting* your debian packaging journey with java. Maybe find a nice C program first. ;) > My goal at the end of the day, is to install " the stock" package for > Cassandra and then to create a special Cassandra-config package that would > move and deploy my customized configuration files on the system. > You're probably better off using a configuration management system such as puppet, chef, or cfengine to.. well.. manage your configuration.
