Re: Newbie compiliing question
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:35:11PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
> I understand that it is preferable to keep everything as Debian packages,
> rather than just getting the source and doing configure, make, and make
> install, as I have been doing on my Mandrake system.
>
> I've been looking at
> http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.html
> 6.14 says:-
> "You will need all of foo_*.dsc, foo_*.tar.gz and foo_*.diff.gz to compile
> the source"
>
> However, all I've ever had in the past is foo_*.tar.gz. That is usually
> all there is.
>
> So, my question is: how are these other files created,
dpkg-source creates them. You'll need to read at least the New
Maintainer's Guide (maint-guide package) to understand how to use it.
A more lightweight alternative is stow.
> and what happens if I have foo_*.tar.bz2 ?
You either repack it as a .tar.gz, or wait for dpkg-source v2. :)
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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