Pragmatic Debian Packaging
Pragmatic Debian Packaging
About the Book
This book teaches you how Debian Packages are structures, and different approaches to creating your own packages.
While the official Debian documentation focuses on creating packages that conform to all Debian policies, this work quickly gets you started on creating packages that work at all, and that work well in your environment.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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1. Introduction
- 1.1 Target Audience and Prerequisites
- 1.2 Typographic Conventions
- 1.3 Contents
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2. Debian Packages in Context
- 2.1 Package Managers, Repositories and the Pull Model
- 2.2 Repository Mirrors and Package Signing
- 2.3 Source Packages and Binary Packages
- 2.4 Upstream
- 2.5 dpkg, Apt and other Frontends
- 2.6 Summary
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3. What’s in a Debian Package?
- 3.1 The File Name
- 3.2 Contents
- 3.3 Summary
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4. Quick Package Construction with fpm
- 4.1 Installing fpm
- 4.2 Example Package Conversion
- 4.3 Discussion
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5. The Debian Build System
- 5.1 A Minimal Package
- 5.2 Build Sequences and Steps
- 5.3 Installing Programs
- 5.4 Adding Special Files
- 5.5 Summary
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6. Debian Packaging Quick Start
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6.1 Starting a Debian Project with
dh_make - 6.2 Language Specific Package Creation Tools
- 6.3 Summary
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6.1 Starting a Debian Project with
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7. Multi-Package Builds
- 7.1 Multi-Package Example
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7.2 Using
dh_install - 7.3 Using Separate Build Targets
- 7.4 Summary
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8. Repository Management
- 8.1 Repository Layout
- 8.2 Repository Management Software
- 8.3 Common Prerequisites
- 8.4 Repository Management with aptly
- 8.5 Summary
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9. Package and Repository Integrity
- 9.1 Integrity From the End User’s Perspective
- 9.2 Integrity From the Debian Project’s Perspective
- 9.3 Summary
- 10. That’s It!
- Notes
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