Need help with Postfix package creation

[Buzai Andras]

Any update on this? any ideas? any help?

Thank you,

Buzai Andras

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Buzai Andras <buzai.andras at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am not sure if this is the place to ask help for my problem but I'll
> try my luck :).
> What I am trying to do is to build a .deb package for Postfix 2.8 that
> will be used in my local network (on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS servers).
> I would like the .deb installation to be as close as possible to the
> way Postfix is installed directly from source (with as few
> modifications to the upstream source as possible).
> I consulted the documentation related to package building from the
> Ubuntu wiki and also the Debian New Maintainers' guide.
>
> I tried to build it the following way:
> 1. dh_make -s -c gpl
> 2. edited the debian/control file
> 3. I created the source package with: debuild -S -sa
> 4. I run: sudo pbuilder build *.dsc.
>
> The problem is that when pbuilder executes the postfix-install script
> I get errors with permission denied for creating directories (since
> there is no root access).
>
> What am I doing wrong? Where? :)
> What should be the approach for doing what I am trying to do?
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Buzai Andras
>