For an old Digital/Compaq/HP Alphaserver 1000A 4/266 running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 I've compiled the program "rdesktop" for accessing a Microsoft Windows 2000 terminal server. A few days later I think about building a debian package of my installation. I googled around and I found no reasonable documentation on doing this for a more complicated example. As a result of my efforts you can read this short manual. Relax and enjoy!
# ./fdp '/usr/local/bin/rdesktop' /usr/local/bin/rdesktop is linked against: Package: libc6.1 Version: 2.2.5-11.5 Package: libssl0.9.6 Version: 0.9.6c-2.woody.6 Package: xlibs Version: 4.1.0-16woody3 #
hostname:/home/ickstadt/newpackages# ls -la -R .: total 104 drwxr-xr-x 3 ickstadt ickstadt 4096 Mar 30 10:26 . drwxr-xr-x 7 ickstadt ickstadt 4096 Mar 30 09:22 .. drwxr-xr-x 4 ickstadt ickstadt 4096 Mar 30 09:22 rdesktop.woody.1.3.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86266 Mar 30 10:26 rdesktop.woody.1.3.1.deb ./rdesktop.woody.1.3.1: total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 ickstadt ickstadt 4096 Mar 30 09:22 . drwxr-xr-x 3 ickstadt ickstadt 4096 Mar 30 10:26 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 ickstadt ickstadt 4096 Mar 30 10:23 DEBIAN drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 30 09:22 usr ./rdesktop.woody.1.3.1/DEBIAN: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 ickstadt ickstadt 4096 Mar 30 10:23 . drwxr-xr-x 4 ickstadt ickstadt 4096 Mar 30 09:22 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 519 Mar 30 10:26 control ./rdesktop.woody.1.3.1/usr: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 30 09:22 . drwxr-xr-x 4 ickstadt ickstadt 4096 Mar 30 09:22 .. drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:22 local ./rdesktop.woody.1.3.1/usr/local: total 20 drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:22 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 30 09:22 .. drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:54 bin drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:51 man drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:22 share ./rdesktop.woody.1.3.1/usr/local/bin: total 176 drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:54 . drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:22 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 224944 Mar 22 11:51 rdesktop ./rdesktop.woody.1.3.1/usr/local/man: total 12 drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:51 . drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:22 .. drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:53 man1 ./rdesktop.woody.1.3.1/usr/local/man/man1: total 16 drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:53 . drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:51 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 4351 Mar 22 11:51 rdesktop.1 ./rdesktop.woody.1.3.1/usr/local/share: total 12 drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:22 . drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:22 .. drwxr-sr-x 3 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:22 rdesktop ./rdesktop.woody.1.3.1/usr/local/share/rdesktop: total 12 drwxr-sr-x 3 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:22 . drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:22 .. drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:55 keymaps ./rdesktop.woody.1.3.1/usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps: total 132 drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:55 . drwxr-sr-x 3 root staff 4096 Mar 30 09:22 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2239 Mar 22 11:51 ar -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2085 Mar 22 11:51 common -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2576 Mar 22 11:51 da -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2467 Mar 22 11:51 de -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2541 Mar 22 11:51 de-ch -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2581 Mar 22 11:51 en-gb -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 609 Mar 22 11:51 en-us -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2236 Mar 22 11:51 es -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2685 Mar 22 11:51 fi -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 907 Mar 22 11:51 fo -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2588 Mar 22 11:51 fr -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2876 Mar 22 11:51 fr-be -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 934 Mar 22 11:51 fr-ca -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2471 Mar 22 11:51 fr-ch -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2699 Mar 22 11:51 hr -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1866 Mar 22 11:51 hu -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2462 Mar 22 11:51 it -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2034 Mar 22 11:51 ja -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1096 Mar 22 11:51 lt -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2840 Mar 22 11:51 lv -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2366 Mar 22 11:51 mk -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 298 Mar 22 11:51 modifiers -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2576 Mar 22 11:51 no -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2672 Mar 22 11:51 pl -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2450 Mar 22 11:51 pt -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1354 Mar 22 11:51 pt-br -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2554 Mar 22 11:51 ru -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2293 Mar 22 11:51 sl -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 999 Mar 22 11:51 sv -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 3123 Mar 22 11:51 th -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2649 Mar 22 11:51 tr hostname:/home/ickstadt/newpackages#
Package: rdesktop Version: 1.3.1 Section: x11 Priority: optional Architecture: alpha Depends: libc6.1 (>= 2.2.5-11.5), libssl0.9.6 (>= 0.9.6c-2), xlibs (>= 4.1.0-16) Maintainer: Frank Ickstadt <my.email@address.tld> Description: RDP client for Windows NT/2000 Terminal Server rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT/2000 Terminal Server, capable of natively speaking its Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT/2000 desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.As you can see we use the data given from our fdp script to declare the dependencies. The description is gathered from the rdesktop web site. Beware: The blank at the beginning of the last four lines are not any kind of typos they have to be the first character in the lines!
hostname:/home/ickstadt/newpackages# dpkg-deb --build rdesktop.woody.1.3.1 dpkg-deb: building package `rdesktop' in `rdesktop.woody.1.3.1.deb'.
hostname:/home/ickstadt/newpackages# dpkg-deb --contents rdesktop.woody.1.3.1.deb drwxr-xr-x ickstadt/ickstadt 0 2004-03-30 09:22:47 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2004-03-30 09:22:30 ./usr/ drwxrwsr-x root/staff 0 2004-03-30 09:22:30 ./usr/local/ drwxrwsr-x root/staff 0 2004-03-30 09:54:15 ./usr/local/bin/ -rwxr-xr-x root/staff 224944 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/bin/rdesktop drwxrwsr-x root/staff 0 2004-03-30 09:51:23 ./usr/local/man/ drwxr-sr-x root/staff 0 2004-03-30 09:53:11 ./usr/local/man/man1/ -rw-r--r-- root/staff 4351 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/man/man1/rdesktop.1 drwxrwsr-x root/staff 0 2004-03-30 09:22:30 ./usr/local/share/ drwxr-sr-x root/staff 0 2004-03-30 09:22:30 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/ drwxr-sr-x root/staff 0 2004-03-30 09:55:43 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/ -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2239 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/ar -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2085 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/common -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2576 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/da -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2467 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/de -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2541 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/de-ch -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2581 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/en-gb -rw-r--r-- root/staff 609 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/en-us -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2236 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/es -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2685 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fi -rw-r--r-- root/staff 907 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fo -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2588 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fr -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2876 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fr-be -rw-r--r-- root/staff 934 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fr-ca -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2471 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fr-ch -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2699 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/hr -rw-r--r-- root/staff 1866 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/hu -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2462 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/it -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2034 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/ja -rw-r--r-- root/staff 1096 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/lt -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2840 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/lv -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2366 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/mk -rw-r--r-- root/staff 298 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/modifiers -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2576 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/no -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2672 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/pl -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2450 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/pt -rw-r--r-- root/staff 1354 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/pt-br -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2554 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/ru -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2293 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/sl -rw-r--r-- root/staff 999 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/sv -rw-r--r-- root/staff 3123 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/th -rw-r--r-- root/staff 2649 2004-03-22 11:51:54 ./usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/tr
hostname:/home/ickstadt/newpackages# dpkg-deb --info rdesktop.woody.1.3.1.deb new debian package, version 2.0. size 86266 bytes: control archive= 496 bytes. 519 bytes, 12 lines * control Package: rdesktop Version: 1.3.1 Section: x11 Priority: optional Architecture: alpha Depends: libc6.1 (>= 2.2.5-11.5), libssl0.9.6 (>= 0.9.6c-2), xlibs (>= 4.1.0-16) Maintainer: Frank Ickstadt <my.email@address.tld> Description: RDP client for Windows NT/2000 Terminal Server rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT/2000 Terminal Server, capable of natively speaking its Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT/2000 desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.The contents and info parameter shows us what we expected. We guess the package is quite correct.
mv rdesktop.woody.1.3.1.deb rdesktop_1.3.1-1_alpha.deb
hostname:/home/ickstadt/newpackages# dpkg -i rdesktop_1.3.1-1_alpha.deb Selecting previously deselected package rdesktop. (Reading database ... 51340 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking rdesktop (from rdesktop_1.3.1-1_alpha.deb) ... Setting up rdesktop (1.3.1) ... hostname:/home/ickstadt/newpackages# dpkg -r rdesktop (Reading database ... 51379 files and directories currently installed.) Removing rdesktop ... dpkg - warning: while removing rdesktop, directory `/usr/local/share' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing rdesktop, directory `/usr/local/man/man1' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing rdesktop, directory `/usr/local/man' not empty so not removed. hostname:/home/ickstadt/newpackages# dpkg --get-selections | grep rde rdesktop install
You can download the rdesktop 1.3.1 package for i386 [54 kB] and alpha [91 kB]. I would like to thank Martin Schmitt from ScSy for building the package for i386 architecture and the initial work on fdp [5 kB] shell script.
You can download this page as pdf file [121 kB].
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