Re: deb from source

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:19:42AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >That's a ... convoluted (and wrong) way to extract a source package.
> >Remove that gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig directory, and try this instead:
> >
> >  dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc
> 
> I thought there was an easier way! So i tried:
> 
>   ~/SRC/GTK2: dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc
> 
>   dpkg-source: extracting gtk+2.0 in gtk+2.0-2.2.1
> 
>   ~/SRC/GTK2: ls
> 
>   gtk+2.0-2.2.1  gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz  gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc  
>   gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
> 
>   ~/SRC/GTK2: dpkg-source -b gtk+2.0-2.2.1
> 
>   dpkg-source: building gtk+2.0 using existing gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
>   dpkg-source: failure: md5sum gave bogus output `'
> 
> Should this step generate a .deb file?

No. At this point you should not use dpkg-source, but 'dpkg-buildpackage
-rfakeroot -uc -us' or similar (or debuild from the devscripts package,
which is less typing).

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]