Re: apt-build

[Todd Tyree <todd.tyree@paxtongreen.nhs.uk>]

> > Just testing it out. I'm doing an apt-build upgrade:
> > E: Unable to find a source package for gnome-games-data
> > -----> Building gnome-games <-----
> > E: Unable to find a source package for gnome-games-data
> > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string
> > at /usr/bin/apt-build line 303.
> > Can't chdir(gnome-games-data-): No such file or directory at (eval
> > 1) line 3
> >  main::__ANON__('gnome-games-data-') called at /usr/bin/apt-build
> >  line 303 main::build('gnome-games', '1:2.8.2', -2) called at
>
> When tried to play with apt-build, I noticed it's some problems to
> deal which sources directories that contains '-' in their name.
> Can anybody confirm this?


Has the binary package already been installed?  If it has, then you need 
to pass apt-build the --reinstall option, otherwise it fails to find the 
source (because apt-get reports that it is up-to-date).

Try apt-build [build-source|source|upgrade|whatever] --reinstall gnome-games

Best,
Todd