On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 02:52 -1000, Tyler Gillies wrote: > when i try to do dpkg -b directory filename it tells me it can't find > directory/DEBIAN/control how do i make it look for > directory/debian/control? dpkg -b is a call to dpkg-deb to "build" a .deb out of a directory. By build it means creating the archive, not actually compiling the software and building it in the sense of dpkg-buildpackage or debuild. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? I doubt dpkg -b is what you're really wanting. -Jordan
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