Re: packaging a self compiled program in a .deb file

From: Alexander Winston (alexander.winston_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/20/03

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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:17:32 -0500

    On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:44, Micha Feigin wrote:
    > I want to package a program I compiled in a .deb to enable uninstalling
    > it cleanly later.
    > It seems that alien can convert slackware tgz packages to debs (I tried
    > the other way around and it doesn't seem like there is any extra data
    > except for the program) and I thought that this could be used to do
    > that (I am just looking for unistall ability and to know whats
    > installed, nothing else).
    > To create this I need to install into some local directory instead of
    > root so that I can create the tar file.
    > Any idea how to do that (maybe chroot could do that but then I loose
    > access to the local executables).

    Check out the Debian New Maintainers' Guide
    <URI:http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/>. 

    


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