Re: dselect/dpkg/apt

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>]

On Wednesday 2 February 2000, at 0 h 20, the keyboard of Dan Potter 
<shun@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

> Can someone tell me the canonical way to compile a deb from the source
> stuff (orig tarball, dsc, diff)? Or point me to a description of how to do
> it? 

If you have all the Debian tools:

dpkg-source -x PACKAGE-VERSION.dsc
cd PACKAGE-VERSION
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

If you don't:

tar xzf PACKAGE-VERSION.orig.tar.gz
cd PACKAGE-VERSION
zcat../PACKAGE-VERSION.diff | patch 
chmod a+x debian/rules
sudo debian/rules