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Re: apt-get source -b build directory



apt-get source downloads to pwd.....  I tripped on it a few times
myself...


On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Bill Wohler wrote:

>  I just tried `apt-get source -b xmms' and the package was downloaded
>  and built in /etc. Why there? Wouldn't it be better to do it in
>  /usr/src?
>
>  If I can't change Debian policy, how can I configure apt-get to
>  download and build in /usr/src? Assuming, of course, that someone
>  convinces me I don't want to do that ;-).
>
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