Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:01:08 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: > >> well, i've just committed a patch to fix this, but please test, as i >> never saw the error message in the first place... > > Does anyone have a good procedure for patching and rebuilding > released ubuntu .debs to test upstream changes? Or a way to build new debs > from sane snapshots at a particular revision? The originally reported > platform (Ubuntu) is not my familiar source-based system (Gentoo). > >
This is how you could do it in Debian [1]. Basic method for a package "somepackage" version "0.7.1-1" is as follows. (This does not change the version number, but that is explained in the documentation.): 0. Get the source package. 1. put somepackage_0.7.1-1.diff.gz somepackage_0.7.1.orig.tar.gz somepackage_0.7.1-1.dsc in a directory. 2. Run dpkg-source -x somepackage_0.7.1-1.dsc to recreate build directory. 3. cd to somepackage-0.7.1 Do what you need. 4. Run dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Completes with message dpkg-buildpackage: full upload (original source is included) 5. Run checks: lintian somepackage_0.7.1-1_i386.changes and linda somepackage_0.7.1-1_i386.changes Both should complete with no errors reported. debc somepackage_0.7.1-1_i386.changes | less On inspection, files contained in package should look OK. # debi somepackage_0.7.1-1_i386.changes should install package OK. # dpkg --purge somepackage removes package. [1] http://www.us.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ Hope that helps. -- Chris.
