On Tue Dec 11, 2007 at 11:21:13 -0000, Vic wrote:
>
> I'm trying to build a .deb package. The tricky part is that I don't
> currently have a Debian installation to do it on.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to build .debs on a RH-type installation?
Best route would be to find a tarball of the 'debootstrap' tool,
then install that and use it to generate a local chroot of Debian
to build within.
Whilst you could build simple packages if you're careful via
ar you're going to hit problems for anything which is compild
because library names and versions will be different. (i.e.
shell, perl, etc packages should be possible, albeit difficult.)
Steve
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