Hi all, Here's what i'm trying to do: * Create a .DEB that contains only 2 simple binaries, plus a couple of dependencies. (i'll have another package, tar ball for right now, for the source code).
Can that be done? You don't *REQUIRE* the source code to be in the .deb, do you? Or is that how it works? I have done searches on google, debian.org, etc. but have not been able to find a clear description of how to do this. All the documentation i can find talks about 2 types of .DEBs: source & binaries. They then go into detail about creating a source DEB (using dh_make, dpkg-buildpackage, etc). I have also looked at the man pages for several tools i've seen mentioned. I did find this: "http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/"; which was very useful. But it mainly centers on a complete package build, including source code. I tried creating a './debian' directory in the project and creating the required files (control, changelog, etc) myself, but that didn't seem to work well: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/DEB/rpmon-1.0$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot parsechangelog/debian: error: unrecognised line, at changelog line 3 dpkg-buildpackage: unable to determine source package Is there a web page anyone can point me to which describes a binary-only .deb creation, or any suggestions/hints/help people can offer? Thanks very much. -- Craig. +------------------------------------------------------+ http://www.wombat.ca Why? Why not. http://www.washington.edu/pine/ Pine @ the U of Wash. +-------------=*sent via Pine4.42*=--------------------+
