Re: Manual creation of dpkg package

Dan Dragos wrote: I have created a script in perl to create a dpkg from a specs file for rpm. I create the package, it begins to install but only copies some data. Have a look at the version I wrote: http://www.deepnet.cx/debbuild/ Note that it will probably fail on very complex .spec files,

Re: Question about dpkg -r

Hope Duryea wrote: The problem is my /usr is actually a symlink, [snip behaviour explanation] I have to ask... *Why* do you have /usr as a symlink? Extra partition, loopback mount, NFS mount I can understand... Symlink I just can't see being more useful than any of the other three I noted, or