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DTAR |
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This is a fairly simple tool for building a Debian package |
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from a source code tarball. Following the convention of the |
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'rpm -ta' command, one can embed the necessary files for |
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building platform-dependent packages within a platform-independent |
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source-code package. This script implements the necessary |
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script for compiling this package on Debian platforms. |
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Usage: |
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dtar ~/ascend-0.9.5.115.tar.bz2 |
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It works by first reading a few of the important files from |
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inside the tarball, including 'debian/control' and |
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'debian/changelog' to make sure that these are present and |
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readable, and that the debian changelog has a version number |
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that matches the source code tarball version number. |
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Next it unpacks the files to a temporary directory and |
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creates the source package. Finally, it creates the |
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binary package and deletes the temporarary files. |
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It is intended that some more command-line arguments will |
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be added to provide greater support over the build process. |
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It is also intended that this build script will provide |
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support for standard file locations as used by RPM, eg |
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RPMS/i386/mypackage_1.0-0.deb, so that the user can easily |
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locate the resulting packages once the command has |
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completed. |
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John Pye |
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16 Aug 2008. |
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