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To offer an alternative, I've personally found checkinstall to be useful for putting together ad-hoc .deb packages for deployment. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/m

• regularfry 13y ago
  Unfortunately checkinstall has an inconvenient bug on (at least) Debian Wheezy which makes sudo required for package building under some circumstances.
  • infinity0 13y ago
    How so? What goes wrong with `make && sudo checkinstall make install`?
    • regularfry 13y ago
      Filesystem translation has a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717778 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717778 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkinstall/+bug/78455 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkinstall/+bug/... This manifests itself by any "mkdir -p" which requires root in the `make install` phase failing.