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creating deb packages - is there an standard way to setup a suffix to the final deb packages?
I am learning how to create deb packages for a small project of mine. I have been able to create the deb package for the binary. So far so good. After the process is finished I can see this:
$ dpkg -c ...
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Package installation failure and rollback options
I'm trying to understand how the creation of packages (rpm, deb, dpkg) work and what the architecture supports and doesn't.
Right now I struggle figuring out what happens when the installation or ...
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Common practice for config files
I'm making a file manager system for managing my projects. My package is named filesystem. I need a config file that stores the path to the root of my file system.
I think I need to create a file /etc/...
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How do you define a dynamic default value in a Debian package template?
I have a package where I want the administrator to enter a list of interface names. I'd like that list to have a default. Only each system has a different list (eth0, enp0s3, eno1, to list a few).
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How are binary packages isolated from host system?
How are binary packages (rpm, deb, etc) created for binutils, gcc and other packages that link to different libs depending on what exists on the host system?
In the LFS project, to isolate the new ...
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apt-get is asking for an older .deb file from a local repo even after putting a newer version
I have a local repository setup on the server (server1) hosted by Nginx. It has few .deb packages and a bash script on another local server (server 2) uses the repo to install packages. I had to ...
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Creating rpm/deb packages for different configurations of my app which will replace each other
TL;DR I want to ship my application in two configurations: basic package and full package with additional modules. How do i do that?
I have two packages for my application for CentOS: app.rpm which is ...
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dpkg-genbuildinfo: error: badly formed line in files list file, line 1
I am trying to debianize a collection of shell scripts. The build itself is quite simple, as there are no binaries to build – every file that will be installed on the target system is already present ...
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building Debian package fails after even a minor change to code
I am able to build Debian package make using following procedure:
apt-get source make
cd make-*
dpkg-buildpackage --build=binary --no-sign
But as soon as I make any change to the code, even changing ...
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Conditional dependencies in `debian/control` file
I'm packaging the software, which depends on a particular version of a library shipped in the official Debian distribution. The software also has a bundled sources of the library.
Is there any way to ...
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Step by step instructions to abandon a Debian package and no longer be its maintainer
I am marked as the Debian maintainer of a package. I no longer wish to be the maintainer of this project. I thought I had gone through the process of abandoning the package, but it looks like I haven'...
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Build debian package using stdeb
I have been trying to build .deb packages for Debian from Python modules. After going through Debian's LibraryStyleGuide for Python, Pybuild and An Overview of Packaging for Python, I decided I am ...
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How can I publish a deb package?
I don't know much about packaging and it took me a a week to create a working deb for my software. Now I need a way for people to install it and I don't want to just create a download link for the deb....
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Get around ~10GB maximum archive size
I am trying to package a Linux software into a DEB archive so it can easily be installed on Debian / Ubuntu. Unfortunately the full software is about 13 GB in size, and whenever I try to create a ...
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Setting file capabilities in deb package fails
So, there is my piece of software, that has to be distributed via deb-packages, it contains a small custom server. That server requires ability to listen on a priviledged port, because explaining to a ...
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