Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

["Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net>]

Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> Daniel B. wrote:
>
> > Are there any instructions for proceeding from having downloaded
> > the source package files and _not_ having unpacked things?
>
> > (I think my current state is as if I had done
>
> >   apt-get source --download-only xfree86
>
> > (I didn't actually do --download-only, but from cleaning up after
> > trying a couple things I think that's the state I'm in.))
>
> Just run "apt-get source xfree86" in the directory where you've
> downloaded the existing files. apt-get will not download them again if
> it does not need to, 


I just ran "apt-get source xfree86" and it deleted
xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz and started downloading it again.
All 59 megabytes of it.  Over a slow connection in my case.

Good thing I suspected you didn't know what you're talking about and
made a backup.


> and will unpack the source files. You can then edit
> the source and build it as described in other messages in this thread.

When I started building (before), I got messages about extracting the
source.

Which build commands re-extract the source files from the source
archive before building and which build from the possibly modified
source (without re-extracting)?  Where's the documentation?


Daniel
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Daniel B.
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