David Z Maze wrote:
Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> writes:Is there a link that describes how to go about building packages from the deb-src files and how I might identify packages for source build only?Modify the source as you feel appropriate, add a new entry to the top of debian/changelog, and run 'debuild' out of the devscripts package. Read documentation on http://www.debian.org/devel/.
Maybe I should ask a more primitive question. What is 'deb-src' for?I thought it was to provide the source code of a deb package and allow the end user to subsequently build a CPU specific or slightly modified (configuration parameters) .deb file for installation onto their own Debian installation.
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