Look at http://www.debian.org:/doc/maint-guide/ for information on making
packages, and here's a site were you can access many documents, including
the above one.
You can see what a deb contains (and build one) by using dpkg. make a
dummy directory, then issue the commands dpkg -x pick-a-deb
yourdummydir This will extract the files and their locations from the
deb package. Then issue dpkg -e same-deb-file same-dir and it will
extract the control files. From that you can see a pretty good indication
of what a debian package consists of.
To build it, you use dpkg with the build option (I think -b), the deb name,
and the directory location with all the files.
scott
Russell Hires wrote:
> I don't know the fix, either. But this is what I get for beta-testing
> anything: doesn't work for me! :-) I'm pondering getting the pppoe .deb
> and extracting the binary, but I don't know enough about how how .debs
> are packaged in the first place. Oddly, I can't seem to find
> documentation about this. I'm also told by the Debian people that libc6,
> which pppoe depends on, isn't the full version in the boot floppies, so
> pppoe might not work in any case.
>
> Does anyone have, or can anyone point me to, documentation on how a .deb
> is built? I've looked all over debian's site, and haven't found
> anything.
>
> Thanks!
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