Re: [ALUG] Building a .deb from files in github

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:43:32AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:

I've never built a .deb in my life, although I have a vague idea of what's required.

Specifically I want to try to turn this: https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/openmediavault-virtualbo... into a .deb

To my untrained eye it looks like most of the bits are probably in place but throwing it directly at dpkg-deb -b suggests otherwise.

dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b while in a checked out tree is probably what you want. J. -- Life would be easier if I had the source code. This .sig brought to you by the letter A and the number 24 Product of the Republic of HuggieTag