Re: How to build source package?
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 11:43, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've been using the "New Maintainer's Guide" and have created
> and built (and installed/uninstalled) a binary package. That's
> all working swimmingly -- I'm even asking the user before I use
> MAKENDEV in postinst. ;)
>
> But, I can't figure out how to create a source package
> (something that would correspond to a .src.rpm file).
In Debian, there is no single file that corresponds with a .src.rpm.
Source packages consist of multiple files. The central one is the one
with ".dsc" as the name; it contains all of the information to describe
the other files needed. These other files will be either a file with
".orig.tar.gz" and a file with ".diff.gz" at the ends of their names, or
a single ".tar.gz" file.
> According to the the NMG, "dpkg-buildpackage" will build both
> source and binary packages, but I don't see anything that looks
> like a source package. I also tried dpkg-source -b, and it
> says it's doing stuff but it creates no source package that I
> can find anywhere.
>
> I imagine I'm just being thick, but can somebody point me to
> documentation on what a source package looks like and how to
> generate one?
>
> Is a "source package" not a single file?
Nope. I'll cut out all the "extraneous" files from your ls, leaving the
source package files:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grante 500 196900 May 8 12:50 rocketats_1.23.orig.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grante 500 332 May 31 11:28 rocketats_1.23-1.dsc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grante 500 16435 May 31 11:28 rocketats_1.23-1.diff.gz
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