Thread: The Grand DEB Packaging Thread!
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lopho is offline lopho
2011-12-24 , 09:11
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#19
a note on the optification/symlinking

i guess it would be best to symlink in the postinst script, as symlinking to your build enviroment wont work and symlinking in your /usr/bin will only work on the machine you did the linking on.

another one on the control file:

most apps will have dependencies, how about you include info on dependency handling.

for example:

Code:
Package: acme
Version: 1.0
Section: web 
Priority: optional
Architecture: all
Essential: no
Depends: libwww-perl, acme-base (>= 1.2)
Pre-Depends: perl 
Recommends: mozilla | netscape  
Suggests: docbook 
Installed-Size: 1024
Maintainer: Joe Brockmeier <jzb@dissociatedpress.net>
Conflicts: wile-e-coyote
Replaces: sam-sheepdog
Provides: acme
Description: The description can contain free-form text
             describing the function of the program, what
             kind of features it has, and so on.
.
More descriptive text.
 

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