[ale] creating a debian package

[ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim Lynch)]

Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 01/19/2010 09:49 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 20:14 -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Checkinstall does a great job of that.  I've used it extensively.
>>>
>>> http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
>>>
>>> That assumes that there is a single command like "make install" that 
>>> will do the install.
>>>       
>> That seemed too easy.
>>     
>
> Yep.
>
>   
>> Does it use ldd to see what libraries are linked and track down the
>> dependencies?  When I do an install on the laptop maybe it will download
>> libxmlrpc-c3 ?
>>     
>
> Nope.
>
> Until more experienced packagers chime in, you may want to look at parts
> of these documents
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete
> http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
>
>   
As he said, "Nope" however you can ask checkinstall to stop and let you 
edit the spec file (or whatever it's called in dpkg world).  Since you 
probably know what libraries are used you can just add them manually.  
It'll save you from building the spec file from scratch at least.

Jim.