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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting/RePackaging Deb Package Post 302927481 by metallica1973 on Wednesday 3rd of December 2014 10:28:22 AM
Old 12-03-2014
Extracting/RePackaging Deb Package
Here is the original absolute file paths for a working deb package called
blah-amd64.deb:
Code:
dpkg-deb -c blah-amd64.deb |less
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-12-02 09:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-12-02 09:48 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-12-02 09:48 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-12-02 09:48 ./usr/share/applications/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       301 2014-12-02 09:48 ./usr/share/applications/blah.desktop
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-12-02 09:48 ./usr/share/blah/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     17408 2014-01-21 16:53 ./usr/share/blah/blah.1

I extract it via:
Code:
dpkg-deb -x blah-amd64.deb .
dpkg-deb -e blah-amd64.deb ./DEBIAN

which extracts it to the current directory called
Code:
usr/

I make my modification to my file:
Code:
usr/share/blah/blah.1

and when I repackage blah-amd64.deb via:
Code:
sudo dpkg-deb -b . blah-amd64.deb

and look at the absolute paths:
Code:
dpkg-deb -c blah-amd64.deb |less
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-12-02 09:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-12-02 09:48 ./applications/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       301 2014-12-02 09:48 ./applications/blah.desktop
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-12-02 09:48 ./blah/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     17408 2014-01-21 16:53 ./blah/blah.1

it changes the path to "/". I want to repackage it back to its original location so when the package is installed, it will install it in the correct path which is /usr/share/blah. Can someone shed some light on what is going on?
Last edited by metallica1973; 12-03-2014 at 12:06 PM..
 

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dh_builddeb

DH_BUILDDEB(1)							     Debhelper							    DH_BUILDDEB(1)

NAME
       dh_builddeb - build Debian binary packages

SYNOPSIS
       dh_builddeb [debhelperoptions] [--destdir=directory] [--filename=name] [--params]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_builddeb simply calls dpkg-deb(1) to build a Debian package or packages.  It will also build dbgsym packages when dh_strip(1) and
       dh_gencontrol(1) have prepared them.

       It supports building multiple binary packages in parallel, when enabled by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.

       When the Rules-Requires-Root field is not (effectively) binary-targets, dh_builddeb will pass --root-owner-group to dpkg-deb(1).

OPTIONS
       --destdir=directory
	   Use this if you want the generated .deb files to be put in a directory other than the default of "..".

       --filename=name
	   Use this if you want to force the generated .deb file to have a particular file name. Does not work well if more than one .deb is
	   generated!

       -- params
	   Pass params to dpkg-deb(1) when it is used to build the package.

       -uparams
	   This is another way to pass params to dpkg-deb(1).  It is deprecated; use -- instead.

SEE ALSO
       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR
       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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