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Here's a video from a BayLISA talk Jordan gave on fpm, which might help clarify things: http://vimeo.com/23940598

Also, see "Use Case - Package something that uses 'make install'" on the fpm wiki at https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki/PackageMakeInstall

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Aw, that's disappointing. I automated those steps in my old package generator(s). After you build a couple thousand linux packages from scratch, you notice most of 'em follow some simple conventions which you can look for and package in an automated way.

http://psydev.syw4e.info/new/autopkg.pl/autopkg.pl-1.5/usr/b... (oh god, this is bad code)

http://psydev.syw4e.info/new/slacktools/slackmake

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