Creating Simple Ubuntu/Debian Packages

Creating static content Debian package

Aug 27, 2007
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Submitted By: Luke Skoubo
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• Linux
• Ruby
• Shell Script
• Ubuntu
• Unix

Occasionally there comes a time when you need to create your own Debian packages. Whether it be for deployment or needing to customize an install to your needs or whatever other reason you may have.

Personally, in my work, I deploy configurations of various sorts to hundreds of Ubuntu systems and have found that automating the creation of debian packages to be very useful. It allows me to track revisions, easily install, or remove the packages that I have made with scripting hooks that are all part of the package. In this example, we are going to construct a static debian package....