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Operating Systems Linux Slackware Packages of different distributions Post 58416 by locustfurnace on Sunday 21st of November 2004 11:31:19 AM

11-21-2004

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Some people who build packages, may be using Slackware-current, or they have updated certain libraries, then they build their packages. So that when someone else uses these packages on their system, such as a stock Slackware-10, they are missing these libraries.

It is possible that the packager used an updated library, which you were missing. But you did have an earlier verison of the library, this is why compile && make did not complain.

Building your own Slackware packages is very simple, and is a good way to install packages, since you now have the ability to remove these titles with pkgtool.

To build a packages that works on ALL Slackware-10 boxes, you have to have a Slackware-10 install with absolutely no updates. Then your packages will work on all other Slackware-10 installs. This is how the majority of Slackware packages are built, and preferred at http://linuxpackages.net

As for a packages that is compatible for every distro, that is not going to happen. Building from sources would be that 'universal' system. It is possible to install different packages onto Slackware, such as using a rpm or .deb on slackware, but it requires a conversion process.

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dh_gencontrol

DH_GENCONTROL(1)						     Debhelper							  DH_GENCONTROL(1)

NAME

       dh_gencontrol - generate and install control file

SYNOPSIS

       dh_gencontrol [debhelperoptions] [--params]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_gencontrol is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating control files, and installing them into the DEBIAN directory with
       the proper permissions.

       This program is merely a wrapper around dpkg-gencontrol(1), which calls it once for each package being acted on (plus related dbgsym
       packages), and passes in some additional useful flags.

       Note that if you use dh_gencontrol, you must also use dh_builddeb(1) to build the packages.  Otherwise, your build may fail to build as
       dh_gencontrol (via dpkg-gencontrol(1)) declares which packages are built.  As debhelper automatically generates dbgsym packages, it some
       times adds additional packages, which will be built by dh_builddeb(1).

OPTIONS

       -- params
	   Pass params to dpkg-gencontrol(1).

       -uparams, --dpkg-gencontrol-params=params
	   This is another way to pass params to dpkg-gencontrol(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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