RE: building a package
On 07-Sep-99 Pere Camps wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I trying to learn to build packages from their source packages and
> I've run into trouble.
>
> I've just downloaded an source package from my mirror and now I'm
> triying to make a compiled package. The package is ppp from the unstable
> tree.
>
> After downloaded I've executed:
>
> $ dpkg-source -x ppp_2.3.9-1.dsc
> $ dpkg --build ppp-2.3.9
>
dpkg --build creates a deb from a compiled source tree. What you want to do is
either:
cd ppp-2.3.9
a) debian/rules binary
b) dpkg-buildpackage -us
That will make the deb for you. Be prepared to install other debs to meet
compile time depends.
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