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.tar to .deb

How to convert slackware .tgz style files to .deb?

Suppose: I know what I'm doing, I just want to use the package
management properties to provide "install" and "uninstall".

The answer is to use alien.

  1.  Prepare a root fs tree (as normal user) with correct
      permissions.  I.e. under "dist", create
      "dist/lib/modules/2.6.25.17/..."

  2.  cd $(TOPDIR) && fakeroot tar cf ../package.tgz *

  3.  fakeroot alien package.tgz

This generates a .deb file that can be used to install/uninstall the
files.  The drawback is that there are no pre/post scripts and there
is no dependency management.




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