On 2008-01-28 21:46 +0100, Norbert Fabritius wrote: > Hello, > > I want to port a small programm to my arm-based handheld. > >From the man page I understand, that the emdebian toolchain will make it > possible for me to make .deb files for the target architecture (arm). > The thing is, I am not able to install .deb files for this device. I > need a locally executable file/directory. Is it possible to extract > something like that from the resulting .deb file, or do I need to > compile that package manually (not using em_make)
It is easy to extract the contents of a deb: ar x package.deb (gives control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz, debian-binary) tar -xzf data.tar.gz unpacks the package contents. It will be difficult to make the emdebian tools produce anything other than .debs Wookey -- Principal hats: Balloonz - Toby Churchill - Aleph One - Debian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
