First of all, let me share with you a script I use to check whether the current CVS will generate a correct Debian package. Keep in mind that this is a test script, and is far from production quality. ---------- cut here ----- #!/bin/sh name=`dpkg-parsechangelog |grep Source | awk -F: '{print $2}'|tr -d ' '` version=`dpkg-parsechangelog |grep Version | awk -F: '{print $2}'|awk -F- '{print $1}'|tr -d ' '` build=../debian-build dir=$build/$name-$version mkdir $dir cp -ar * $dir cd $build find . -name CVS | xargs rm -rf tar czf ${name}_$version.orig.tar.gz $name-$version cd $dir dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us cd .. rm -rf $name-$version ---------- cut here ----- Now, to have a well installed twisted.web server, just use this script (run it when the current directory is the toplevel CVS directory, and make sure there's a directory called "debian-build" as a sister directory) Now, go into ../debian-build install the generated twisted_*.deb Now, run /usr/bin/mktap web, or use your favourite tap file. use /usr/bin/tap2deb -t file.tap -m 'Your Name <email@example.com>' Go into .build, and install the generated .deb This will start your web server, and make sure it gets restarted on reboots. -- Moshe Zadka - http://moshez.geek (if you're not cool, http://moshez.org is still working)