boberx / deb-build-helper

Building Debian packages

deb-build-helper

Description

Helper tool for building Debian packages
It is a wrong way to building Debian packages, but I'm so used to it

How to use

1. The best way to build your package's is in a clean chroot environment

• Install the required packages

  apt-get install coreutils bash debootstrap

• Setting up a chroot (example for debian jessie)

  CHROOTDIR="/storage/jessie-chroot_amd64"; LC="ru_RU.UTF-8";
  mkdir -p "${CHROOTDIR}" && \
  debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=minbase --include=locales,apt-utils,dialog,findutils,file,sed,gawk,bzip2 \
    jessie "${CHROOTDIR}" http://mirror.mephi.ru/debian/ && \
  echo "LANG="${LC}"" > "${CHROOTDIR}"/etc/default/locale && \
  sed -i 's/# "${LC}" UTF-8/"${LC}" UTF-8/' "${CHROOTDIR}"/etc/locale.gen && \
  chroot "${CHROOTDIR}" /bin/bash -c "su - -c \"locale-gen\"";

2. Creating a new directory for the package

   mkdir "${CHROOTDIR}"/package_name;

3. This helper script should be is in the same directory as the config files

   cp build_package.sh "${CHROOTDIR}"/package_name;

4. Create package configurations files

   cd "${CHROOTDIR}"/package_name;

   Run, and then follow the instructions

   ./build_package.sh -a

5. Edit configuration files using text editor

6. The main configuration file is build_config.sh Configuration file options
   APP_PCKG_MAINTAINER The package's maintainer name and email address
   APP_DEB_PCKG list of packages to build
   APP_SRC_ARCH
APP_SRC_DIR
APP_VERSION The version number of a package
   APP_REQ_PCKGAV
APP_CFG_OPTS
APP_CFLAGS
APP_HOMEPAGE The URL of the web site for this package

7. Package configuration files is build_config_packagename.sh Configuration file options
   APP_DEB_PCKG_packagename_DESCRIPTION
APP_DEB_PCKG_packagename_ARCH Architecture APP_DEB_PCKG_packagename_DEPENDS

8. Enter the chroot environment to begin building

   chroot "${CHROOTDIR}";

9. Building Debian package

   cd package_name

   ./build_package.sh