Re: dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

John Pye wrote:


> So: assuming I have complete control over what is in my tarball, what
> is the neatest, tidiest and safest way to set up and run an
> actual .deb build?
> 

First you need to debianize the tar ball using dh_make. If it is already
debianized, you can build the packages using

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot

I am not sure where subversion comes into picture in your problem. May be I
am not understanding the question properly.

Roberto has written a very good document on customizing debian packages with
detailed instructions. But unfortunately I could not locate it in google.

You can take a look at my own crude version of building customized gnuplot
packages.
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2007/04/build-gnuplot-with-gnu-readline-and.html

hth
raju

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