Thus spake Paul Yeatman last Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:03:59PM -0700:
> Hi, due to the recent ssh security message, I'm in a new position
> as far as compiling and creating a debian package out of source
> code. Given the location of the source code on the security
> server, I don't see how I can list it as a deb-src in my sources.list
> file. I can however download the source code for ssh from the
> security server and the accompanying .dsc file. But then how do
> I use these to create the debian package?
>
> Thanks.
With the tarball, diff and dsc files with you, issue
dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc
It will extract into a packagename-version directory. cd to that
directory, read debian/control to know what you need to have to
compile the source, then issue
dpkg-buildpackage
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University of the Philippines Manila
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