Re: Custom deb packages?

[Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:55:22PM -0700, debian@xtremedev.com wrote:
> I've got a few debian machines here that I'd like to update with a custom
> w3m .deb package. Ideally, what I'd like to do is download the source .deb
> for w3m, extract it, apply debian specific patches from the package
> maintainer, apply my own custom patches to the C source, repackage it up
> as a w3m.deb, and install it in my machines. That way I'd still have it
> registered in the package management system.
> 
> Thus far, I've gotten to:
> 
> 1. apt-get source w3m
> 
> But that's about it. apt-get gave me this listing:
> 
> w3m-0.2.4/
> w3m_0.2.4-1.diff.gz
> w3m_0.2.4-1.dsc
> w3m_0.2.4.orig.tar.gz
> 
> But then, I don't see the extracted source under w3m-0.2.4/, just debian/
> and upstream/, neither of which has a debian-prepatched source which I can
> modify before repackaging up. I'm sure this is a common enough occurance
> that someone would have figured out an elegant way to do it. No?
> 
> I could always just download the w3m sources from it's homepage and build
> it and install it by hand, but then it wouldn't get registered in the
> debian package management system.

The easiest way is to add patches into  debian/patches that are against
the 0.2.4 source. Or at least work against that source version :)

Then run
dpkg-buildpackage from the w3m-0.2.4/ directory.

Then the .deb should be in the parent directory of w3m-0.2.4/.

- Adam