Re: How to recompile the package (glibc) from the source?

["Jules Bean" <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

--On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 12:40 pm -0600 "Oleg Krivosheev" <kriol@fnal.gov>
wrote: 

> 
> hi, All
> 
> is there good way to recreate package from source 
> (glibc in particulary)? I've got glibc_2.0.7u-5.diff.gz,
> glibc_2.0.7u-5.dsc and glibc_2.0.7u.orig.tar.gz, but
> they looks like usual tarballs...
> 
> What is the magic which can get me glibc*deb etc?

You want all three.

dpkg-source -x <name>.dsc
cd <name>
debian/rules binary

as root.  Or man dpkg-buildpackage for an alternative approach, not
requiring root (along the lines of dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot).

Jules

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