Thursday, December 1, 2016

Debian Package Creator and Installer

I made this for a particular "product", change the directory variables and final archived .deb filename per your needs.

debian.build.install.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# this.is.lance.miller@gmail.com
clear;
basedir='/home/';
microdir=$basedir"micro/";
chmod 0775 $microdir'DEBIAN/postinst';
myfile=$microdir'DEBIAN/control';
echo $myfile;
myversion=`cat $myfile | grep Version | cut -d' ' -f2`;
echo $myfile' declares version '$myversion;
dpkg-deb --build $microdir;
ls -l $basedir*.deb;
sleep 5;
dpkg -i $basedir'micro.deb';
ls -l $basedir*.deb;
newfile='our_product_name_'$myversion'_all.deb';
echo 'creating this versioned deb archive: '$newfile;
mv $basedir'micro.deb' $basedir$newfile;
ls -l $basedir*.deb;

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