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Howto repackage deb packages
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howto_deb_repackage.txt
Use folowing steps to repackage debian package:
1: Make dirs
# mkdir extract/DEBIAN build -p
2: Extract deb package
# dpkg-deb -x <package.deb> extract/
3: Extract control-information from a package
# dpkg-deb -e <package.deb> extract/DEBIAN
4: Do some stuff/make the changes you need to make, enter the extract directory, then recalculate the md5sums
# cd extract
# find * -type f ! -ipath '*DEBIAN*' -exec md5sum {} \; > DEBIAN/md5sums
# cd ..
4. After completed to make changes to the package, repack the deb
# dpkg-deb -b extract/ build/
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