Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial

2005-11-11 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
I've been playing around with packaging up some of my projects for debian. I have gotten it to work, but I'm still having problems understanding some of the features that are available (for instance it took me forever to learn about the .config file). Is there any kind of tutorial or guide that

Re: Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Koch
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:25:18PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: I've been playing around with packaging up some of my projects for debian. I have gotten it to work, but I'm still having problems understanding some of the features that are available (for instance it took me

Re: Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial

2005-11-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:25:18PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: I've been playing around with packaging up some of my projects for debian. I have gotten it to work, but I'm still having problems understanding some of the features that are available (for instance it took me

Re: Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial

2005-11-11 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:39 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: snip A sufficiently generalized piece of documentation would be great, though. Suggestions for content: conffile handling (dpkg.org), maintscripts (debian women? I don't fully grok these yet!), and upgrade handling with eg. split

Re: Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Koch
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:02:56PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:39 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: snip A sufficiently generalized piece of documentation would be great, though. Suggestions for content: conffile handling (dpkg.org), maintscripts (debian

Re: Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial

2005-11-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:02:56PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:39 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: snip A sufficiently generalized piece of documentation would be great, though. Suggestions for content: conffile handling (dpkg.org), maintscripts (debian