DeeDeeG
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2 years ago The built package would be stored at out/atom-amd64.deb.
I would say pay close attention to the spelling of the --create-debian-package flag, as it's long and easy to mistype, and because non-existent or typo'd flags are silently ignored (!) and the build takes a long time. I don't see anything in that output above about building the debian (.deb) package.
Sample output when creating the debian package
``` Creating Debian package for "/home/user/atom/out/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64" Creating Debian package directory structure at "/tmp/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64" Copying "/home/user/atom/out/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64" to "/tmp/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64/usr/share/atom-dev" Copying binaries into "/tmp/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64/usr/bin" Writing control file into "/tmp/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64/DEBIAN" Writing desktop entry file into "/tmp/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64/usr/share/applications" Copying icon into "/tmp/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64/usr/share/pixmaps" Copying license into "/tmp/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64/usr/share/doc/atom-dev" Copying polkit configuration into "/tmp/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64/usr/share" Generating .deb file from /tmp/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64 dpkg-deb: building package 'atom-dev' in '/tmp/atom-dev-1.63.0-dev-d46f5241a-amd64.deb'. Copying generated package into "/home/user/atom/out/atom-amd64.deb" ```I made a script to build just the debian package after the rest of the build is already done. Because I've ended up in this exact situation before. (See below). This should be saved as script/some-filename.js so it can import the script/config.js file and the glob module properly.
#! /usr/bin/env node
const glob = require('glob');
const CONFIG = require('./config');
const createDebianPackage = require('./lib/create-debian-package');
const outDir = CONFIG.buildOutputPath;
const appName = CONFIG.appMetadata.name;
console.log(`Searching for completed Atom build using glob pattern: ${outDir}/${appName}-*/`);
const packagedAppPath = glob.sync(`${outDir}/${appName}-*/`)[0];
console.log('Found Atom build at: ' + packagedAppPath);
createDebianPackage(packagedAppPath);EDIT: Updated with a better script.
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Hello all,
just ran
script/build --create-debian-packageas per instructions. The process apparently completed successfully:However, I was not able to find the newly created Debian package. Is there anything to be done in addition?