[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Building a binary package?

[From: Miko Nieminen]

On 08/07/06, publicmr at gmail.com <publicmr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am new to the Nokia 770 development (as well as debian packages) and
> have recently finished setting up the development environment (Maemo 2.0).
> So far I have got everything up and running and I have been able to build a
> simple Hello World application from scratchbox. I ran it in the emulator
> (Xephyr) and now I am trying to run it in the Nokia 770. I have been trying
> to build a binary package that includes the helloworld executable, but so
> far I have not been successful. Is there any simple way to quickly build a
> binary package from my helloworld executable? I have been able to build the
> maemopad example package, but since my project has only 1 file, I was
> wondering if there is a simpler way to create my package (avoiding all the
> makefiles). BTW, using dpkg-deb I managed to build a package but the 770
> complained it was not installable.
>

I think that you don't want to create Debian packages by hand, there are
just way too many things that could go wrong.

Debian New Maintainer's Guide is good document to get started with:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html

This document uses dh_make to "debianize" your source package (to create
dummy version of needed files under debian/ subdirectory). Allt the tools
you need can be found from the SDK

br,
-- 
Miko Nieminen
miko.nieminen at gmail.com
miko.nieminen at nomovok.com
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