Howto repackage deb packages · GitHub

Howto repackage deb packages

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howto_deb_repackage.txt

      
        Use folowing steps to repackage dep package:
      
        1: Extract deb package
      
            # dpkg-deb -x <package.deb> <dir>
      
        2: Extract control-information from a package
      
            # dpkg-deb -e <package.deb> <dir/DEBIAN>
      
        3. After completed to make changes to the package, repack the deb
      
            # dpkg-deb -b <dir> <new-package.deb>

bmhatfield commented Jun 30, 2015

Thanks for this. Most concise form of this I've seen. Might want to mention updating md5sums: https://blog.serverdensity.com/how-to-create-a-debian-deb-package/

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