clean way to package 3rd party software

[Nicolas Valcarcel]

If you are trying yo check what's being installed by the package you
can less in the .deb, there you will see all the files that your
package includes.

On 7/17/08, Pau Oliva Fora <pau at eslack.org> wrote:
> Carsten Aulbert wrote:
>> (2) Right now I then manually move all the changed files into a
>> temporary directory, create a DEBIAN directory along with the necessary
>> files (md5sum, control, ..) and call dpkg -b and go for a coffee.
>>
>> However, especially this second step is rather tedious when it has to be
>> done multiple times. Is there a better way of doing it?
>>
>
> You might want to try 'checkinstall'. It's a script that automates this
> task for you and in most cases creates debian packages successfully.
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	Pau
>
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