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A simple shell script that builds a fake .deb of jockey-common
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| #inspired by kochd's script <https://gist.github.com/kochd/5819972> | |
| # installs equivs which is used to generate fake packages | |
| sudo apt-get install equivs | |
| # creates a file called 'tmp' | |
| > tmp | |
| # appends package info to tmp | |
| echo " | |
| Package: jockey-common | |
| Priority: optional | |
| Section: admin | |
| Installed-Size: 728 | |
| Maintainer: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> | |
| Architecture: all | |
| Source: jockey | |
| Version: 0.9.7-0ubuntu7 | |
| Depends: bash, | |
| Description: user interface and desktop integration for driver management | |
| Jockey provides a user interface for configuring third-party drivers, | |
| such as the Nvidia and ATI fglrx X.org and various Wireless LAN | |
| kernel modules. | |
| . | |
| This package contains the common data shared between the frontends. | |
| Python-Version: 2.7 | |
| " >> tmp | |
| # builds fake package | |
| equivs-build tmp | |
| # installs fake package | |
| sudo dpkg -i jockey-common_0.9.7-0ubuntu7_all.deb | |
| rm tmp jockey-common_0.9.7-0ubuntu7_all.deb |
it does work. click on "raw" link to copy text.
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This script does not work. Multi-line description causes an error when it is processed by equivs-build. I changed to comment to be single-line and it helped.