Thanks for all you time helping to explain how this stuff works, I
really appreciate it, I find most of the documentation on this subject
pretty heavy reading and extremely difficult to learn from.
You'll be pleased to know I've started to use fakeroot instead of sudo
for the packaging
Cheers Eti
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 06:27:34PM +, james frize wrote:
> Thanks Etienne,
>
> I think I'm starting to get it now, I'll have to read a bit more on
> how a makefile works before my next attempt, all this "binary target"
> stuff is confusing me.
debian/rules is a Makefile which has several targ
Hello, the problem is that your "install" target installs files during
the build, and not during the .deb installation.
What a source package does is preparing a .deb file, which is roughly
a tarball of files that will be installed under / (on the user's
system) by dpkg.
How it does it is through
Hey Mentors,
I've just started making my own deb packages and I'm struggling to get
them working properly. You'll have to excuse my lack of technical
knowledge, as I've only been programming for a few months. I'm doing
this as a learning task with a view to becoming a contributer /
maintainer in t
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