On 13 Aug 2000 at 18:20 (+0200), Allan Jacobsen wrote: | Hi | | I have been using debian for more than 4 years now and I have | finaly talked my boss into trying debian instead of redhat | for our servers, that we install in hotels all over europe. | I have been reading most of the dokumentation on making .deb | pakages, but most of it is how to package foreign source that | anyone should be able to recompile. | Our buildtree is totally incompatible with this, so I have been | looking for a few simple scripts to package the bin and conf | files to make a usable deb package. | I read somewhere that I could unpack a deb my using | "ar x package.deb", and the format looks reasonably simple | with the 3 files, where data.tar.gz should be untared in / | and the control files and scripts are in control.tar.gz | Does any of you have some suggestions ?
take a look at: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ I can't comment on its suitability to a newbie-packager, because I'm just now reading it too, but it looks like a fairly low-overhead tutorial from a cursory glance. hth. brent -- Damon Brent Verner o _ _ _ Cracker JackŪ Surprise Certified _o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _< \_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_)>(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_