[odf-discuss] Smart package manager

[Daniel Carrera]

On Fri, 2007-05-01 at 04:02 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> If make && make install run no problem, then it should be a piece of cake 
> to turn it into a package for APT. It can probably be done as a script 
> after the first time.

Yeah, most of the work is me learning how to make a .deb. But all the
deb needs to do is copy a bunch of files.

> Here are some guesses about relevant instructions:

Thanks.

> For kernel packages, according to my notes, everything took less than 
> three hours including researching the process on Usenet, downloading 
> source code, configuring, minor trial and error, cussing a little, eating 
> dinner, and so on. Making the packages involved a few minutes for three 
> extra steps beyond the normal build process.  YMMV

It took me much longer than that to figure it out when I did it. But
it's doable.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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