dpkg_resources.txt

This is a short collection of resources I have used in packaging Chef for Debian.

Good starting point, links to some of the other pages here:

* http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/debian.html

Debian New Maintainers guide:

* http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

Debian Policy:

* http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

I build packages with sbuild, an schroot + lvm snapshot strategy for clean build environments.

* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SbuildLVMHowto
* http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/sbuild-dm/

And a chef cookbook to set up a server for doing sbuilds:

* http://cookbooks.opscode.com/cookbooks/sbuild