[Distutils] How to build Debian packages (answer)
Bastian Kleineidam
calvin@cs.uni-sb.de
Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:40:41 +0200 (CEST)
>Umm, I don't get it. How does this generate a Debian package?
>(Ie. what command spits out a .deb file that Joe Luser can download and
>install trivially?)
That would be "debian/rules binary". The rules script calls
$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp
and expects that this call installs everything in debian/tmp.
Output of the rules script is a .deb package in the parent directory.
You install .deb packages with "dpkg --install blubb_0.1.0_i386.deb".
You deinstall packages with "dpkg --remove blubb".
You purge packages with "dpkg --purge blubb".
Purging additionally removes any config files of the package while
--remove leaves them so you do not have to reconfigure if you install
the package again.
Bastian
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