tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > 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: > > If you're the kind of person who needs to get dirty fingers > while learning, pick a Debian package you care about (not a > very complex one) and download the source. Make a work > directory, cd there and download a source package (I'm using > hello, because it's small) [dd] Thank you, it was very instructive! The result of the described magic would be a .deb package, correct? > > There are several directions you can branch out from there. > Having the manual (pointed at by other nice folks in this > thread) handy is highly recommended. One very interesting > is how to decouple your build environment from your machine > environment (including building for other Debian versions, > cross building for other architectures, etc -> pbuilder, > sbuild, and my favourite, schroot). Or packaging something > new -> Debian New Maintainer's Guide) etc. Next I would like to publish those tweaked and local packages in a local repository in a corporate intranet, so that I could add this repository to sources.list and its packages should override the standard Debian ones. Maybe however, it is not such a good idea to publish for other systems a package built outside a clean reference environment. Actually I would like to get the better of the two worlds: the general good quality and stability of Debian packages and - for selected packages only - the flexibility of *BSD ports, or probably Gentoo(?). -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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