Re: Compiling Packages
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Dave Broudy wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
>
> > 1) Download the .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz and .dsc file for the package from
> > any mirror in dists/<hamm or slink>/source
> >
> > 2) Put all three in the same dir. Type 'dpkg-source -x ????.dsc'
> >
> > 3) Cd into the newly created source dir. Run 'debian/rules build' (if
> > possible, as root, otherwise, read the docs on how to use fakeroot).
>
> Sounds easy enough. Is there a centralized list of packages that are
> higher priority, or are already done, or ones where the effort is
> substantial and are in progress?
I, too, will be compiling some packages - notably, menu, libungif,
possibly E..
Is there a system for submitting them? Or has someone else got it
covered? I know there are some auto-compiling tools out there..
Jules
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