Re: Building a package from source

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:29:49PM -0400, Chris Hilts wrote:
> I have a debian box (mostly stable, a few packages from unstable) I'd 
> like to install the cyrus21-imap server & related packages onto. (I'm 
> dying to try out SIEVE mail filtering).  Since installing the cyrus21-* 
> packages will require me to upgrade libc6 (which breaks things quite 
> badly right now - see bug 155904),

<plug> Install libdb1-compat and you'll be fine. </plug>

> Is there a relatively simple way of getting the debian source and 
> compiling it, and making .deb's?

Yes:

  $ sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts fakeroot
  $ apt-get source cyrus21-imap
  $ cd cyrus21-imap-*
  $ dpkg-checkbuilddeps
  ... install any necessary build-dependencies ...
  $ debuild -B -uc -us

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]