From b1b543c2891fb04c5d6fc7ed38bb7878e6aa9e61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Sankauskas Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:12:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Smiting Debian packaging instructions that did not work, and replacing them with the correct instructions. Changing file to .md to match 'docs' file. --- packaging/debian/README.md | 13 +++++++++++++ packaging/debian/README.txt | 11 ----------- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) create mode 100644 packaging/debian/README.md delete mode 100644 packaging/debian/README.txt diff --git a/packaging/debian/README.md b/packaging/debian/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..58de3a3bdec --- /dev/null +++ b/packaging/debian/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Ansible Debian Package +====================== + +To create an Ansible DEB package: + + sudo apt-get install cdbs debhelper dpkg-dev git-core reprepro + git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git + cd ansible + make deb + +The debian package file will be placed in the `../` directory. This can then be added to an APT repository or installed with `dpkg -l`. + +Note that `dpkg -i` does not resolve dependencies diff --git a/packaging/debian/README.txt b/packaging/debian/README.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 88bda090909..00000000000 --- a/packaging/debian/README.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -I have added a debian folder for use in building a .deb file for ansible. From the ansible directory you can run the following command to construct a debian package of ansible. - -~/ansible$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot - -The debian package files will be placed in the ../ directory and can be installed with the following command: -~/$ sudo dpkg -i .deb - -Dpkg -i doesn't resolve dependencies, so if the previous command fails because of dependencies, you will need to run the following to install the dependencies (if needed) and then re-run the dpkg -i command to install the package: -$ sudo apt-get -f install - ---Henry Graham