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Those are definitely better links, but a while back I needed a quick guide to make something that worked on private servers. I couldn't find a quickstart guide,
by ssundarraj 11y ago
Those are definitely better links, but a while back I needed a quick guide to make something that worked on private servers. I couldn't find a quickstart guide, so I decided to make one. Thanks for the feedback!
- zlatan_todoric 11y agoYou really should take more care of servers :) What does Debian miss that you need for your servers (I am really interested). Also for quick and dirty you could use checkinstall. There is also a good tutorial on DigitalOcean about fpm: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-fpm-to-easily-create-packages-in-multiple-formats https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-... And just maybe me nitpicking too much but the title should be then "How to quickly create deb package for personal needs". Notice that this means you don't get Debian Security support for your own package so that can be a huge breaker for many people running servers :)
- ssundarraj 11y agoI wasn't aware of the DigitalOcean tutorials and the tutorials on debian.org (at least the ones I saw) were pretty dense. I wanted to just package it up and get it running within a few hours (quick dirty install as you said) and couldn't use anything else due to external constraints. I agree with the modified title suggestion and have changed the title of my blog post. Thanks for your feedback! :)
- zlatan_todoric 11y agoYou welcome and thanks for taking suggestions into account. For simple things you probably want to use in future more of checkinstall (to keep it easier for yourself the creation, installation and removal part): https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall
- ssundarraj 11y agoCheckInstall looks nice! I'll definitely take it into account next time I need a quick package done. I've also added it to my post. Thanks!