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[link] 2006-10-20T00:42:32 creating deb packages with checkinstall : I'm trying out http://www.plope.com/software/supervisor/ and it looks good so far. Part of my setup will be to have supervisord running on 4+ ubuntu boxes, and there's no ubuntu package (that I'm aware of). I'd like a package since that will make it incredibly easy to upgrade and downgrade the version on all my boxes all at once or to rebuild a box based mostly on the pkg list. I found http://www.coffeebreaks.org/blogs/?p=65 which relies on http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/. checkinstall watches what files get written by a command (e.g. 'make install') and gathers those files into a package. checkinstall has a decent console UI for setting the simple metadata about a package. If I aliased 'sc' to 'sudo checkinstall', it would practically be EASIER to make packages out of everything I install than not to make them. It's ridiculous. I'm not sure how to provide package dependencies to checkinstall (e.g. supervisor depends on python), so I guess that might require some more debian pkg tool fu. But I don't really need deps to solve my current problem.
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