Jens Staal dixit:

> I was especially interested thanks to the two custom "ar" and "ranlib" bash

.oO(why bash? ☺)

> I have tried learning other Linux packaging formats and have sort of figured
> out the rpm:s, but still struggling with .deb:s

The http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ is pretty
useful, although packaging mksh for Debian initially took me
two whole days (compared to two hours or so for pkgsrc® and
another two hours for “everything else”).

> (packaging the NetBSD Rump
> kernel on OpenSuse Build service for most Linux distros).

Interesting. I attended a related talk at FOSDEM…

> Thanks! Always fun to try something new :)

So true.

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
«MyISAM tables -will- get corrupted eventually. This is a fact of life. »
“mysql is about as much database as ms access” – “MSSQL at least descends
from a database” “it's a rebranded SyBase” “MySQL however was born from a
flatfile and went downhill from there” – “at least jetDB doesn’t claim to
be a database”  -- Tonnerre, psychoschlumpf and myself in #nosec

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