Re: howto for compiling of deb packages

[Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 10:52:32AM +0100, Roland Wegmann wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have to know how you can build deb packages from source. Could somebody
> tell me if there exists an apt-get(able) doc package that introduces me
> in the topic of compiling your own deb packages from source?

Just use dpkg-buildpackage

apt-get source <whatever package you want>
cd <directory of package>
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage

and you'll get debs in the parent directory
or 
it will barf that it needs some packages instealled first..

That's it (or at least should be unless the source it broken)

- Adam