Hello again!
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:48:09AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> my patch is below -- what do you think?
> [...]
> <para>This is also the target to use if you want to upgrade a one
^^
> or more already-installed packages without upgrading every
> [...]
That's all I'd complain about, but better ask a native speaker... ;)
> on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:22:28AM +0200, Florian Ernst insinuated:
> > This manual page is generated during build from a XML source, so best
> > download the source package, unpack it, copy it to something like
> > apt.orig and start editing the XML file(s). Once you have verified the
> > changed version still builds
>
> how do i do this? [...] is
> this the way you had in mind when you said to make sure the package
> still builds?
Actually, no. :)
A good start for building packages is installing the "build-essential"
and "fakeroot" packages.
Make sure you have a deb-src line in your /etc/apt/sources.list, eg.
"deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib" (but
better pick a local mirror). Then after "apt-get update" you can issue
"apt-get source apt" as non-root which will download apt_0.5.27.tar.gz
and apt_0.5.27.dsc into your current working directory and automatically
unpack it. Copy the resulting dir to something like "apt_0.5.27.orig"
and start editing the files in "apt_0.5.27". Once you are done you can
simply do a "diff -ruN apt_0.5.27.orig apt_0.5.27" to get all
differences you applied.
In order to test whether the package still builds (ie. whether the
applied changes corrupted anything) change to the source directory and
issue "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot". It will complain about any
missing build-dependencies, so you'll need to install those as well.
This last step can be made easier by simply issuing
"apt-get build-dep apt" as root.
Things get a little bit trickier when your personal working
environment differs from the unstable distribution, then it is
preferrable to create some sort of Sid-chroot using the "debootstrap"
and / or the "pbuilder" package. When doing more than a single build
I'd recommend to check the "debian-goodies" and the "devscripts"
package as well as reading the New Maintainers' Guide...
HTH,
Flo
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