Anyone have a pointer or notes on patching a debian source package and rebuiding?
I want to fix a broken package. I have notes from patching a source package in the past, but they don't agree with what I'm seeing when I try it now or from what I can find on google. Can my google skills be that bad? All I could find was this: http://lists.fivecolleges.net/pipermail/fclug/2003-August/003699.html And here's my notes, which seem incomplete now: apt-get source will download a few files, so it's nice to start in a new dir $ mkdir <package> && cd <package> $ apt-get source <package> $ cd <package>-<version) (Modify the source as you like.) now update the package's version and build $ dch -v 0.9.3-2+local.1 $ debuild -rfakeroot -uc -us $ cd .. # dpkg -i <package>-0.9.3-2+local.1_i386.deb very simple. But when I try it now I don't see the sources uncompressed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/libquicktime$ apt-get source libquicktime1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 673kB of source archives. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main libquicktime 0.9.2release-5 (dsc) [883B] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main libquicktime 0.9.2release-5 (tar) [664kB] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main libquicktime 0.9.2release-5 (diff) [7734B] Fetched 673kB in 8s (77.1kB/s) dpkg-source: extracting libquicktime in libquicktime-0.9.2release [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/libquicktime$ ls libquicktime-0.9.2release libquicktime_0.9.2release-5.dsc libquicktime_0.9.2release-5.diff.gz libquicktime_0.9.2release.orig.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/libquicktime$ ls libquicktime-0.9.2release/dist fps-fix.diff libquicktime-lib64.diff optimize.diff libdv-fix.diff libquicktime-rtjpeg.diff rtjpeg-fix.diff.off libquicktime-0.9.2.tar.gz mmx-fix.diff shlib-ver.diff Anyway, that pipermail archvie I found talks about editing the .orig file. Won't that avoid the patches in the Debian source package? What I need to fix is just the configure script, I think. Here's the bug report <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252446>. The library is reporting: Cannot open plugin directory ${exec_prefix}/lib/libquicktime which seems like a compile time problem -- perhaps a quoting issue in Makefile.am. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
