Building deb packages

Cheat sheet to build .deb packages

make deb makes a deb matching the distribution and architecture of the building host.

To manually make a deb for some other target

1. Create or update a base.tgz for the desired build target
   pbuilder-dist xenial|bionic|cosmic|disco i386|amd64 create|update
2. Create/Update the dsc and tar files
   make deb-src
3. Get the dsc filename from the output of "make deb-src"
   example: release/deb-src/mainline_1.0.1.dsc
4. Build the deb with pbuilder-dist
   template: pbuilder-dist <dist> <arch> build <dsc_file> --buildresult release/deb
   example: pbuilder-dist bionic i386 build release/deb-src/mainline_1.0.1.dsc --buildresult release/deb

To build-install-test-uninstall testing debs locally easily without having to get the exact filenames

make deb-install
make deb-uninstall