Re: Converting a .deb to a .ipk

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:32:47AM -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
> Ross,
>
> Thanks for posting these pointers.
>
> You can go straight from foo.deb to foo.ipk in 3 simple steps:
>
> ipkg-deb-unbuild foo.deb
> <Make any manual customizations to the package here>
> ipkg-build foo
>
> The ipkg-deb-unbuild and ipkg-build scripts are available in
> familiar/dist/ipkg/util from hh.org CVS. See
>
> http://www.handhelds.org/sources.html

Great! This information, along with the information about the
ARM .debs, just saved me a lot of work. It did point up some
ports that I need that are missing from the .deb pool, including:
firewalk, fragrouter, ngrep, and ntp. As well as dsniff, which
I ported last night.

Hopefully, I'll be able to test all of these tonight, and figure
out the "...and then a miracle occurs..." section of the procedure
above, and have these along with asclock, arpwatch, and nmap
ipkgs in the next day or so.

-- 
Mark C. Langston
mark@bitshift.org
Systems & Network Admin
http://www.bitshift.org