> Is there at least a way of .deb-izing some program's source
Yes. Unfortunatly you have some reading to do, because it's the same
system the Debian/Ubuntu packagers use.
http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#policy
http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#devref
http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide
http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#menu
http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#i18n
You might not (probably won't) need all those, but I've linked them just
so you have them easily available.
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 03:57 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Pete Theisen wrote:
>
> > Eben King wrote:
> >> I went to add some packages (abcde, for one) to my laptop, which runs
> >> Ubuntu 6.something (how do I check?)
> >
> > Hi Eben!
> >
> > I just had that issue myself a second ago. I found that I had the install CDR
> > on top of the machine and had written it on the CD with a marker, Mepis 7.
> >
> > Maybe you did the same thing?
>
> Naah, it's a laptop. I have to schlep it around, so things that can come
> off do. Tomorrow I'll poke around in /etc, maybe there's something useful
> in there.
>
> I just get pissed at forced obsolescence. I guess now I squeeze some more
> life out of it by installing whatever I need from source. Is there at least
> a way of .deb-izing some program's source so it can keep track of the files
> and maybe remove them later? It probably wouldn't have all the dependencies
> unless I can find a handy-dandy database of them, but something's better
> than nothing.
>
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