build it.

nightfall(~/projects/homebrew) % uname -a
Linux nightfall 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:39:03 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

nightfall(~/projects/homebrew) % bin/brew install wget
Warning: Xcode is not installed! Builds may fail!
==> Downloading http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.bz2
File already downloaded and cached to /home/jls/Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> Downloading patches
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Patching
patching file src/openssl.c
==> ./configure --disable-debug --prefix=/home/jls/projects/homebrew/Cellar/wget/1.12 --disable-iri
==> make install
Warning: /home/jls/projects/homebrew/bin is not in your PATH
You can amend this by altering your ~/.bashrc file
==> Summary
/home/jls/projects/homebrew/Cellar/wget/1.12: 51 files, 2.5M, built in 24 seconds

nightfall(~/projects/homebrew) % ./Cellar/wget/1.12/bin/wget -q -O- "http://www.random.org/integers/?num=5&min=1&max=100&col=5&base=10&format=plain&rnd=new"
zsh: permission denied: ./Cellar/wget/1.12/bin/wget

# For some reason the binary isn't chmodded executable. Fix it.
nightfall(~/projects/homebrew) !126! % chmod 755 ./Cellar/wget/1.12/bin/wget

nightfall(~/projects/homebrew) % ./Cellar/wget/1.12/bin/wget -q -O- "http://www.random.org/integers/?num=5&min=1&max=100&col=5&base=10&format=plain&rnd=new"
75      34      1       27      69

package it with fpm

# Package it
nightfall(~/projects/homebrew) !1! % fpm -s dir -t deb -C Cellar/ --prefix /opt/homebrew -n wget -v 1.12 -d "openssl (>= 0.9.8)" wget/

# Inspect the package
nightfall(~/projects/homebrew) % dpkg -c  wget-1.12-1.amd64.deb
... <output cut > ...
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4108 2009-09-20 15:59 ./opt/homebrew/wget/1.12/README
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2104 2009-09-02 01:45 ./opt/homebrew/wget/1.12/AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- root/root     68739 2009-09-21 20:39 ./opt/homebrew/wget/1.12/ChangeLog
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-03-30 00:23 ./opt/homebrew/wget/1.12/etc/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4499 2011-03-30 00:23 ./opt/homebrew/wget/1.12/etc/wgetrc
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-03-30 00:23 ./opt/homebrew/wget/1.12/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root    394490 2011-03-30 00:23 ./opt/homebrew/wget/1.12/bin/wget
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-03-30 00:23 ./opt/homebrew/wget/1.12/share/
... <output cut> ...

# Install it.
nightfall(~/projects/homebrew) % sudo dpkg -i wget-1.12-1.amd64.deb 
(Reading database ... 172303 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace wget 1.12-1 (using wget-1.12-1.amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement wget ...
Setting up wget (1.12-1) ...

# Run it
nightfall(~/projects/homebrew) % /opt/homebrew/wget/1.12/bin/wget 
wget: missing URL
Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...

Try ‘wget --help’ for more options.