I just recently started using debian, 6 months ago. I have run into a number of situations in which I needed to build a package, or thought a package could be useful. The packages I have been working on are: sara security scanner, nagios-modules, nagios doesn't have all the modules package for nagios. snort-webmin (just doing QA for the webmin maintainer.) dcc rhyolite, want to upgrade from 1.1.17 to 1.2.32. dynfw, based on dynfw from gentoo dynamic ipblock/ipadd script. (dynamically block unblock a single ip address in iptables via bash script.) Useful for opening up a a port for one machine, or automatically blocking a bad machine via portsentry.
I use all of these packages for my servers at work, so I work on them at work.... This must be a dumb question, but I am running into problems determining how to upgrade an older version of a package to a newer version of the package. Example, i have the deb.dsc and similar files for sara, and it is based on sara 3.x, I wish to upgrade it to version 5.0, which is the current release. What is the correct/easiest way to do this? I am not creating a new package from scratch, I am just updating packages based on newer versions. I have looked at the debian docs, but they were still sort of confusing. If their are references I missed, let me know. I've got to the point where i can run dpkg-buildpackage and generate a deb file from existing files I've created via dpkg-source on the dsc file. I got the buildroots, dependencies figured out. I am just now sure what I need to do to upgrade it to a newer upstream version. Could someone perhaps provide help (and probable answer a number of simple questions) concerning this? Luke Computer Science, System Administrator. Montana State University, Bozeman MT. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
