Friday, December 5, 2008

personal reminder: building debian packages from source

...for future reference:
  1. apt-get source (-t testing) PACKAGENAME
  2. apt-get build-dep (-t testing) PACKAGENAME
  3. cd PACKAGANAME-version
  4. OPT: vi debian/rules (e.g. to activate some experimental features)
  5. OPT: vi debian/patches/00list (to enlist a patch that should be applied)
  6. OPT: vi debian/patches/... (the patch enlisted previosly)
  7. dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
  8. dpkg -i ../PACKAGENAME-version-etc (only the necessary packages)

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