On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:55:22PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a few debian machines here that I'd like to update with a custom > w3m .deb package. Ideally, what I'd like to do is download the source .deb > for w3m, extract it, apply debian specific patches from the package > maintainer, apply my own custom patches to the C source, repackage it up > as a w3m.deb, and install it in my machines. That way I'd still have it > registered in the package management system. > > Thus far, I've gotten to: > > 1. apt-get source w3m > > But that's about it. apt-get gave me this listing: > > w3m-0.2.4/ > w3m_0.2.4-1.diff.gz > w3m_0.2.4-1.dsc > w3m_0.2.4.orig.tar.gz > > But then, I don't see the extracted source under w3m-0.2.4/, just debian/ > and upstream/, neither of which has a debian-prepatched source which I can > modify before repackaging up. I'm sure this is a common enough occurance > that someone would have figured out an elegant way to do it. No? > > I could always just download the w3m sources from it's homepage and build > it and install it by hand, but then it wouldn't get registered in the > debian package management system.
The easiest way is to add patches into debian/patches that are against the 0.2.4 source. Or at least work against that source version :) Then run dpkg-buildpackage from the w3m-0.2.4/ directory. Then the .deb should be in the parent directory of w3m-0.2.4/. - Adam
