Re: Update from kernel 2.2 to 2.4 mit the stable release

[Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch>]

Hi

Yes, ok, i will forget rpm.

I tried your way over apt-get all worked fine until the compile process 
started. Here is the output of apt-get:


Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Need to get 977kB of source archives.
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is e2fsprogs
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1.19-3
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
 debian/rules clean DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 
DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux
dh_testdir
make: dh_testdir: Command not found
make: *** [clean] Error 127
Build command 'cd e2fsprogs-1.19 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed


what is "dh_testdir"?

Do you have an advice?

cheers,
Raffaele


On Sunday 11 February 2001 15:57, ktb wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:31:44PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Thanks for that help.
> >
> > I got the modutils rpm from kernel.org and installed it with no probs.
> >
> > Now i downloaded the e2fs source files from the depian ftp. I got 3
> > files. The main file, a diff file and a .dsc file. For what do i need the
> > .dsc file? Is this a kind of an info file for buliding a .deb file? if
> > yes, how do i build the .deb file that it includes the main (then
> > compiled), the diff and the dsc file?
>
> Forget rpms.  If you have it installed it is probably OK but .debs are
> much preferred.  You can install the deb source with dpkg but the easy
> way is using apt-get.  You should become familiar with that.  It will
> make your life easy.
>
> In - /etc/apt/sources.list
> make sure you have a couple lines like -
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
>
> You can change "unstable" to "testing" if you like.
>
> Run -
> # apt-get update  (I think this step is needed, if you didn't have source
>                    lines in sources.list, won't hurt anyway)
>
> Make a directory in /usr/src and move there (name doesn't matter) and
> run-
>
> # apt-get -b source e2fsprogs
>
> That will build a .deb you can install with -
>
> # dpkg -i whatever.deb
>
> I'm going to cc: the list as I think it is best to keep it there in case
> anyone else had the same question.
> kent

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