Packaging Gambas for Debian
Posted: Monday 16th December 2019 10:59pm
The one thing I miss about using OpenSuse was having new Gambas releases within a day or two available for updating through the package manager. Now, being on Debian, I have to wait for many weeks or even months before I see Gambas appear in the package manager.
Back when I was on RPM based flavors (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc.) I would sometimes build my own RPM's (before I used Gambas). It's been 20 years since I've done anything like that, but I would like to start doing the same for .deb's and offer up a way to download them for anyone that wants them. I've started digging into building packages for Debian and have set up a spare box to do the builds. Looking at the howto for Gambas packagers on the Gambas website left me feeling a bit dumber than before I read through that page.
Anyone have links to good instructions on building Gambas .deb packages for Debian? Also, any good advice on automated software/scripts for doing the builds?
Back when I was on RPM based flavors (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc.) I would sometimes build my own RPM's (before I used Gambas). It's been 20 years since I've done anything like that, but I would like to start doing the same for .deb's and offer up a way to download them for anyone that wants them. I've started digging into building packages for Debian and have set up a spare box to do the builds. Looking at the howto for Gambas packagers on the Gambas website left me feeling a bit dumber than before I read through that page.
Anyone have links to good instructions on building Gambas .deb packages for Debian? Also, any good advice on automated software/scripts for doing the builds?