"Stan Brown" wrote: > Sounds liek a stupid question I know. First the reason. I am trying to > get amanda to work on my debian box. I am still on bo and there is no > .deb binary, so I think simple i'll just grab the hamm source stuff. > > I found the .orig file and a .diff file. I thought I could just untar > the .orig, and then pun pathch < from the .diff file. But this results > in lot's of files in the directory I am working dorm, and not in the > appropriate subdirectories. > > What am I doing wrong?
Take as an example bible-kjv. These are the files in the Debian archive: bible-kjv_4.00-4_i386.deb <-- binary package bible-kjv_4.00-4.diff.gz } bible-kjv_4.00-4.dsc } <-- source bible-kjv_4.00.orig.tar.gz } (In the case of a package written for Debian, there may not be a .orig.tar.gz) Download all three components of the source -- let us say to /tmp. Then cd to the directory under which you want to put the source and run dpkg-source -x /tmp/bible-kjv_4.00-4.dsc (substituting, of course, the correct .dsc filename.) This will create the directory bible-kjv-4.00 in the current directory, containing the original source with Debian changes applied. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
