hi, On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:34:23PM +0000, Sam Halliday wrote: > Thunderbird 1.0 has not made it into unstable yet, but the maintainer has > his own repository here: > http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/index.html > with only i386 binaries.
> i have no experience building debian packages... how would i go about > creating a powerpc .deb from the sources? basic recipe: add "deb-src http://people.debian.org/~asac/testing ./" to /etc/apt/sources.list run "apt-get update" run "apt-get build-dep mozilla-thunderbird" # to install build-dependencies run "apt-get -b source mozilla-thunderbird" # to fetch source and automatically build it install resulting .deb with dpkg -i test, notify maintainer that he/she has built a decent package that also builds on powerpc, upload to webspace and ask for inclusion in inofficial repository ;) this is also described in the official documentation: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html cheers fabian -- .''`. fabian linzberger http://lefant.net/ ,= ,-_-. =. : :' : do yourself a favour: ((_/)o o(\_)) `. `'` use and support free software! `-'(. .)`-' `- http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ \_/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
