@Israel,
Can you please offer this cheat sheet? What you are describing is a bit
foreign to me, perhaps that would shed some light on it. :)
- tres.finocchi...@gmail.com
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Israel <israeld...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/24/2014 10:50 PM, Vesa wrote:
>
> On 08/25/2014 06:40 AM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote:
>
> Thanks. Hmmm... intersting... Ok, so you're really just following our
> build tutorial to and then running checkinstall.
>
> This is from the Ubuntu wiki:
>
> CheckInstall is not designed to produce packages suitable for
>> distribution. Do not use it to produce packages intended for the Ubuntu
>> archive or PPAs. Instead, follow the Packaging Guide.
>
>
> So it seems like it's probably not a good way to do permanent
> packaging.
>
>
> Yeah no it isn't. I use checkinstall when I compile stuff from source
> because it's a neat way to keep track of self-compiled programs, but I
> don't think it works for creating generic packages.
>
> Also a thing to note is that you'll probably also need to pass compiler
> flags to GCC to generate generic code, otherwise your package will only
> work for people with similar enough CPU's to yours.
>
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> Hi... making a PPA is a better way to do this.
> There are a lot of ways to do this in a better fashion. I already have a
> bzr branch for Utopic with 1.0.3 If you want I could set it to build for
> Trusty and Precise.
> A PPA will work for 32bit and 64bit, however if you want to build for PPC
> or ARM, you will need to build it on one of those devices. If you have all
> the needed Ubuntu build tools you can grab the source of the PPA and build
> the deb from that, and build in pbuilder for the specific release you are
> on, etc..
> A PPA is also better, as the control file automatically pulls in all the
> current depends.
>
> If you want I can give you a pbuilder/bzr cheat sheet I have made.
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