From 672b881df3ee8bbc1423d29a9a792de60b166460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Mazzoleni <amadvance@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:24:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for DEB

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 makedeb.sh | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 makedeb.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Script to manually build a Debian .deb package for snapraid on Slackware
+# (using only dpkg-deb; no dpkg-buildpackage or debhelper needed)
+#
+# This avoids the /var/lib/dpkg/status issue entirely by:
+# - Building the source directly
+# - Installing into a temporary package root directory
+# - Creating minimal DEBIAN/control manually
+# - Packaging with dpkg-deb --root-owner-group
+#
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+VERSION="13.1"  # Update if needed
+TARBALL="snapraid-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
+SOURCE_URL="https://github.com/amadvance/snapraid/releases/download/v${VERSION}/${TARBALL}"
+PKG_NAME="snapraid"
+PKG_ROOT="${PKG_NAME}-deb-root"
+CONTROL_FILE="${PKG_ROOT}/DEBIAN/control"
+
+# Prefer local tarball
+if [[ -f "./${TARBALL}" ]]; then
+  echo "Using local ${TARBALL}"
+else
+  echo "Downloading ${TARBALL}..."
+  curl -L -O "$SOURCE_URL"
+fi
+
+# Clean previous builds
+rm -rf "${PKG_ROOT}" snapraid-${VERSION}
+
+# Extract source
+echo "Extracting source..."
+tar -xzf "${TARBALL}"
+
+# Build the software
+echo "Configuring and building snapraid..."
+cd snapraid-${VERSION}
+./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
+make
+
+# Install into package root
+echo "Installing into temporary package root..."
+mkdir -p "../${PKG_ROOT}/usr"
+make install DESTDIR="../${PKG_ROOT}"
+
+# Add example config and docs
+mkdir -p "../${PKG_ROOT}/usr/share/doc/snapraid"
+cp snapraid.conf.example COPYING AUTHORS HISTORY README "../${PKG_ROOT}/usr/share/doc/snapraid/"
+
+cd ..
+
+# Create DEBIAN directory and control file
+echo "Creating DEBIAN/control..."
+mkdir -p "${PKG_ROOT}/DEBIAN"
+cat > "$CONTROL_FILE" <<EOF
+Package: snapraid
+Version: ${VERSION}-1
+Section: utils
+Priority: optional
+Architecture: amd64
+Maintainer: Andrea Mazzoleni <amadvance@gmail.com>
+Description: Disk array backup for many large rarely-changed files
+ SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity
+ information of your data and it's able to recover from up to six disk
+ failures. SnapRAID is mainly targeted for a home media center, with a
+ lot of big files that rarely change.
+Homepage: https://www.snapraid.it/
+License: GPL-3.0-or-later
+EOF
+
+# Build the .deb package
+echo "Building .deb package with dpkg-deb..."
+dpkg-deb --root-owner-group --build "${PKG_ROOT}" "${PKG_NAME}_${VERSION}-1_amd64.deb"
+
+# Cleanup
+rm -rf "${PKG_ROOT}" snapraid-${VERSION}
+
+echo ""
+echo "Build complete!"
+echo "Package created: ${PKG_NAME}_${VERSION}-1_amd64.deb"
+echo ""
+echo "Note: This is a basic binary .deb package (no advanced features like scripts or full dependency checking)."
+echo "To install on a Debian/Ubuntu system: sudo dpkg -i ${PKG_NAME}_${VERSION}-1_amd64.deb"
+echo "All man pages (including localized ones) and the example config are included."