Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:07:04AM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> I am having problems installing the wu-ftpd package from source.
>
> The whole reason I am grabbing the source is that I want to use a more
> recent version of wu-ftpd than what is available with the slink binary
> packages. If I can build the package from the source files to give me
> a slink compatible package, it is all the better.
>
> I update my /etc/apt/sources.list with
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
>
> and then I did a
> # apt-get update
> $ apt-get source wu-ftpd
>
> and it retrieved the 2.6.0 wu-ftpd. It looks as if it applied the patch for
> me. I got an erro with the "debian/rules" binary though
>
> $ cd wu-ftpd-2.6.0
> $ debian/rules binary
> dh_testdir
> make: dh_testdir: Command not found
> make: *** [build-stamp] Error 127
>
> Do you know what this error indicates?
It means that the command "dh_testdir" is not available.
$ dpkg -S dh_testdir
debhelper: /usr/share/man/man1/dh_testdir.1.gz
debhelper: /usr/bin/dh_testdir
You need to install the debhelper package.
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