On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 03:15:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A short question:
>
> Does anyone know how to compile a debian source package into a binary?
If you have the source package, which usually consists of three files,
the *.dsc, the *.orig.tar.gz, and the *.diff.gz, you need only do the
following to unpack the source:
dpkg-source -x *.dsc
That will create a directory having the same name as the package.
Change to that directory, and run the following command:
debian/rules binary
That will run the "rules" script in the "debian" directory, with the
binary argument which says just create the *.deb binary package. That
should be sufficient in most cases (except for XFree86 :)
MG
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Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"And though the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning."
--Pink Floyd, "Echoes"
