songbird wrote: > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > As a person with the FreeBSD background, I'm used to building my own > > packages with the exact build options I need (those include exim, nginx, > > samba, clamav and many others). FreeBSD has a good infrastructure for > > this (ports tree, poudriere et al.) > > > > Where can I learn to do a similar thing for Debian? I'd like to have my > > own package repository which: > > > > 1. Keeps my local patches and configure/build options. > > 2. Gets updated and recompiled when the main Debian repository gets updated. > > 3. Can have a higher preference for my Debian systems than the default Debi= > > an repositories. > > > > I know this can be done because I use some vendor repositories (zabbix, > > consul etc) but I need the tools and knowledge. > > > > What would you advise me to read? > > there is a ton of information under: > > https://www.debian.org/devel/ The problem is I don't need a ton of information :-) I need to hear from someone who has already done that for themselves: "I use such and such tools, and publish my repo this way..." > what you want is possible, but it really gets harder > or easier if the package you are interested in is already > done by someone else, then you can just get the source > code for yourself that has already had most of the work > done to it up to whatever standards the debian packager > has and you can go from there. the other aspect is if > the package is required or not so you can't remove it > without removing a lot of other things. if it is a leaf > package or one that can be somewhat self-contained then > you can just remove the debian version and put your own > in the place and set up a watch on the repository to > see when changes happen. I have no doubt there are many such tricky things, that's why I'm looking for a tutorial. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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