Hi, I'm writing the "How Software Producers Can Distribute Their Products Directly in DEB Format" guide and need help in a few parts.
1. Creating Debian Packages on Other Operating Systems I want to explain how to create a Debian chroot on other operating systems (typically other Linux distros). The best thing would be porting debootstrap and dpkg and packaging them as tarball and as RPM. I think I can do that myself if nobody else wants to, but I'd like to hear if anybody has ever done or tried doing it. 2. Converting an RPM to a DEB How to convert an RPM to a DEB. For simple packages using alien and adapting the resulting package might do; what I'd want here is a list of problems one usually runs into and of important differences between the two systems. I have almost no experience with RPM, so there's no way I can write that in the near future. 3. Making it Easy to Create both RPM and DEB Packages What one could do to make packaging easy for both RPM systems and Debian, such as calling the Debian update-* tools and the equivalent RPM tools using if/else statements. As I don't know much about RPM I can't write that section either. I also appreciate all other suggestions and corrections. What I've written so far is available at http://www.isotton.com/debian/docs/distribute-deb.xml http://www.isotton.com/debian/docs/distribute-deb.html -- Aaron Isotton http://www.isotton.com/ My GPG Public Key: http://www.isotton.com/gpg-public-key
