[Ubuntu Chicago] Packaging

[Antonio Sosa]

Thanks Andrew, Rich -

Looks like I have a lot of reading ahead of me. Appreciate the tutorials
to get me started. 

 
Antonio Sosa


-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-us-chicago-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-us-chicago-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Rich
Johnson
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:53 PM
To: ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu Chicago] Packaging

On Saturday 21 April 2007, Andrew Bassett wrote:
| Today at the meeting, Tony was looking to do some packaging for some 
| of his clients... I've found a real basic tutorial, and I figured I 
| would sent this out to the list as well.
|
| https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowToBuildDebianPackagesFromScratch

Read Debian Policies first to kind of get an idea on how we do things.
Now we don't do it exactly, but we do follow a lot of Debian's
practices.
HTML: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
PDF:    http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/policy.pdf.gz

Then checkout the Debian New Maintainers Guide first, don't need to know
it by heart, but grasp the concepts.
HTML: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html
PDF:    http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/maint-guide.en.pdf

Now it is time for the Ubuntu Packaging Guide
HTML: https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/packagingguide/C/index.html
PDF:    https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/pdf/ubuntu/C/packagingguide.pdf

NOTE: I am currently working for my MOTU membership with Ubuntu and
currently work with a couple of mentors. I understand 85% of how
everything works with Debian and Ubuntu now, I have 25+ packages in
Ubuntu that I maintain now, plus a ton of uploads and REVU uploads. I
have a couple of patches that have made their way into Debian recently
as well. I have multiple pbuilder environments setup here (Breezy,
Dapper, Edgy, Feisty, Sid, and Etch) and I am working with packages
every day. So, with all of that nonsense being said, please feel free to
contact me with questions, and also if you hop on IRC check out
#ubuntu-motu. We will be running the MOTU schools again this year. 
Oh before I forget also look over the MOTU wiki at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU. It is a lot of reading, but it is needed
big time.

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