Checkinstall, create .deb packages

I'm republishing this cause the previous version of the text was rubbish.

Create nice deb-packages. Mpd is only an example of course. Useful when building from source.

The example below assumes you have cloned a git repository (mpd in this instance) and has done the pre make stuff already.

#!/bin/sh
cd mpd
checkinstall -y --install=no --pkgname=fluff-mpd --provides=mpd --pkgversion="`date +%Y%m%d`.`git rev-list --abbrev-commit --max-count=1 HEAD`" make install
mv *.deb ../

Then, if you want to install the package you simply:

dpkg -i package_name.deb

Tada. :)