On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:56:54AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > administering several Debian boxes, I make use of some patches created > for particular codes my users got used to it. > > Since I am fascinated of the Debian package system an dwould like to > make use of the system for easy package distribution, I would like to > integrate these patches into the source and create the debs. > > Searching the web has not led me to the explanation I have been > looking for. > > My approach: > > apt-get source <package> > cp <mypatch> <package>-<version>/debian/patches > cd <package>-<version> > su -c "dpkg-buildpackage" > > Is this the correct way to go? If it works, go for it :) > Further, I run my own local mirror of unstable. Is there any way to > have a freshly created package being inserted into this mirror without > the package being overwritten everytime a debmirror is run during the > night? Add something to the above commands to bump the version a little? Or maybe tell debmirror to exclude these packages? Or put them in your own apt respository that debmirror doesn't touch? apt-ftparchive will generate the neccessary files for this to work. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: wire transfer BCCI Semtex national information infrastructure
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