Re: Compiling package from "testing" for potato

[Mark <mdevin@ozemail.com.au>]

Colin Watson wrote:

> Mark <mdevin@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> >However, the last few lines of output when compiling the .deb seem a
> >little worrying:dpkg-deb:
> >----------------------------------------------------
> >building package `hotplug' in `../hotplug_0.0.20010228-3_all.deb'.
> >dpkg-genchanges -b
> >dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code
> >dpkg-buildpackage: no source included in upload
> >----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >Does this indicate an error?  Does anyone know what this means about
> >"binary-only" and "no source included"?
> >
> >I thought this compiled it from source???????  I don't understand,
> >please someone enlighten me.
>
> You can ignore it. Those messages are for maintainers uploading things
> to the Debian archive, and means that the build only produced new binary
> packages and didn't change the source. It's not an error.

Excellent, it worked!

>
> >Also, another question;  when I issued the command:  apt-get source
> >--build hotplug, it put all the source files and compiled .deb in the
> >current directory.  Should I have made a directory
> >/usr/local/src/hotplug and cd'ed to it before issuing this command?  Is
> >this where you should keep these source packages in a traditional debian
> >layout?
>
> I don't know if there is a traditional Debian layout. :) I have
> ~/src/debian/<package>/... for each of my own packages, and
> ~/src/packages/<package>/... for other people's packages; in some ways
> this doesn't make a lot of sense, but it sort of grew that way and I've
> got used to it. It should probably be in your home directory, though, as
> you can and should build almost all packages as an ordinary non-root
> user, provided that you have fakeroot installed.

Thanks for the info.  I will copy them over to my home directory.

Thanks.

Mark.