*- On 19 Sep, Jim B wrote about "Re: tailing rotating log files" > Brad: thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. > > The version of tail included with "slink" does not have this functionality. > What would be the recommended means of upgrading? > > a) obtain gnu source and compile? This would work but would mean I would > have to play games with dpkg (perhaps using equivs) in order to make it > think I've upgraded the package. > > b) get potato source deb and make an slink package, which should take care > of dpkg's concerns. > > c) other methods? > > "b" sounds like a good idea, but I'm not sure how to do it at the moment, > never built a dpkg package before (I will figure it out). BUT -- I can't > find any source debs on ftp.us.debian.org. Where should I be looking? I > see source tarballs and that's it... is this what I should use to build the > package? I always thought there was something like the "source rpm" concept > in .deb format, where the package is all laid out and just needs to be > re-compiled and re-packaged. >
The source packages come in .tar.gz, .diff and .dsc.(no diff if it is a native Debian program) The easiest way is to get the apt v 0.3.11 from http://www.debian.org/~jgg and add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free Then cd to some directory like /usr/local/src and issue the following apt-get update apt-get --compile source textutils This will download and compile the textutils package from potato using your currenlty installed libs. You will need to have the libc6-dev package from slink installed and maybe others if the build fails. There are not source Depends yet. When you are done you will have a new slink based textutils Debian package ready to install. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
