On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:55:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time, thanks. I'll just > > compile it myself. > > You could still get the unstable source packages and build the deb > from them. Now I really wish I could figure out the damn details as > to how to do this. Any one care to explain? I'm lost in a maze of > manpages all alike. > > [dpkg-source -x? dpkg-buildpackage -b? dpkg-deb?? Red Hat makes this > so easy it's not funny.] >
In Debian it's very easy. Just download <package-name>orig.tar.gz <package-name>diff.gz and <package-name>.dsc . Then do dpkg-source -x <package-name>.dsc and it will untar orig.tar.gz into separate subdirectory ./<package-name> and apply debian-specific diff.gz . Go into this directory and do "make -f debian/rules binary" and after compilation you will have binary .deb file in your start directory ( in ../). -- o------------------o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski| _/_|_\ o------------------o (o\__/o)=))))))))))))) "It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here."
