Hello, I have packaged some debian packages to help making debian packages on fedora and compiling them. This includes: * dpkg to manipulate .deb archives, and create source packages. Everything that needs a .deb database will be broken, but that's not an issue in my opinion, we are on fedora after all ;-) * debhelper and dh-make to help the creation of debian packages (and html2text as a debhelper dependency) * debootstrap to create a debian (or ubuntu) chroot * pbuilder to compile a .deb in a chroot (with dependencies tldp-xsl and dblatex, and python-which as a dblatex dependency). I will use them locally, but I don't want to maintain them in fedora, since I have enough packages already. Everything is here: http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/dumas/fc-srpms/debian/ pbuilder will need to be launched as root, since the non-root procedure involves user-mode-linux which is not in fedora. these packages have some man pages encoded in non utf8 charsets, and also some install arch independent stuff in %_libdir instead of %_datadir. I would tend to avoid messing with those issues and wait for the debian project to fix them. html2text, python-which, tldp-xsl and dblatex are not debian specific, but are needed as dependencies. (dblatex conflicts with a file in tetex-tex4ht, I am the tetex-tex4ht maintainer and ready to change the name). Other packages may certainly be packaged once the above packages are in, like lintian and devscripts. When/if those packages are accepted I will certainly write something about developping and building .deb on fedora. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
