Re: fakeroot to build a package?
Hi Osamu,
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 02:10:57PM +0200, Eugene Zhukov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I came across this building tutorial [1]. It advertises using
>> fakeroot debian/rules binary
>> command to build a package. Needless to say it doesn't work for all packages.
>> I find this tutorial confusing. I know of two other IMHO better pages
>> on the topic [2] and [3].
>> Did I miss something or the first wiki needs fixing.?
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial
>> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging
>> [3] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
>
> These are good ones :-) (I wrote recent portion of maint-guide)
>
I updated [1] to use debuild where possible for consistency and
clarity with other tutorials.
> But multi-arch description in maint-guide is weak due to the limitation
> of dh_make command.
>
> You may also wish to install debmake package and read its documentation.
> This is rather new tool and may have some rough edges.
>
> Regards,
>
> Osamu
>
> Debmake documentaion is available at:
> https://people.debian.org/~osamu/maint-guide.html
>
This debmake link is very useful, thanks!
Eugene
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