On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:23:48AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > The owner and group were preserved on the source files so that means when > > I try to do some operations I see, for example: > > > > moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ touch dvd_reader.c > > touch: creating `dvd_reader.c': Permission denied > > > > moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ ls -l !$ > > ls -l dvd_reader.c > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 6581 30099 26332 May 19 2002 dvd_reader.c > > Sounds like you extracted the source package as root. Don't do that; you > don't need to.
Ah, thanks. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html shows: To download a source package, you would use the following command: # apt-get source packagename but then the rest of the examples never leave root, which is what I expected. BTW on that page: # dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b is there any need for -rfakeroot when run as root? Now, I use the following to change the version before building the package: $ dch -v 0.9.3-2+local.1 is there a way to use --increment when building locally. I assume that would break things. It would be nice if there was an --append-to-version. I guess my question is really: what's the easiest way to update the version. Finally, I suppose if 0.9.3-3 shows up in the debian sources then my next dist-upgrade will overwrite my local version, correct? It would be nice if a dist-upgrade could warn me that a new package is available, and then I could download the source again, apply my changes and rebuild again. Thanks, -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
