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Re: Binary-Only packages

Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> writes:

> There should still be a .dsc file, no?  You are making changes to the
> distribution because of the debian/* files you're adding.  It makes
> sense to have a .orig.tar.gz and a .diff.gz file.

This brings up something I've been wondering about.  Say I have some
local program, and I compile it to install to tmp/usr/local...

What I'd like to have is a simple tool that I could use like this:

  make-trivial-local-package --name local-program-package --revision 1.2-1 tmp

to take tmp and make it into a package,
local-program-package_1.2-1.deb, that installs the files with respect
to "/".

It's not meant to be a serious tool, just one for packaging really
local things in a hurry so that they can be easily removed.  I suppose
it would also be nice to support a --provides flag that can be
specified multiple times.  This would make it really easily make an
AccelX dummy package (not that it's that hard anyway, but...).

I was just trying to figure out the easiest way to do this.  I thought
perhaps debmake, but that seems a little overkill here.  I've been a
little out of the package tool development loop, so I'm not completely
up on all the current options.

Thanks
--
Rob

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