On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Nick Gawronski wrote: > Hi, > > I did apt-get source debian-installer and was told to download the > debian-installer from git so I did this. Then I tried to do a demo > build of the GTK target and it failed with unable to create directories > in /tmp and things not existing. I then went to the debian-installer > wiki pages and was told there to checkout the subversion sources then > use mr to murge in the git changes. > > My question is what is the correct method for checking out and building > the debian-installer after installing the build dependencies using > apt-get build-dep debian-installer as I think the README file and > the wiki pages should all have the the same information and not two > different sets of directions on two different pages?
IMHO makes Nick a good point. To address it is a patch attach. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
From f5c5c58ca4de8fe5f8b26a8e6d7ba778176f35ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Geert Stappers <stapp...@debian.org> Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 19:08:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] new file: debian/README.source https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource for further information about that encouraged file --- debian/README.source | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 debian/README.source diff --git a/debian/README.source b/debian/README.source new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6ed0fb --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.source @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ + +You may got to this file by + + apt-get source debian-installer + +or by + + debcheckout debian-installer + + + +The recommented way to get this file and the whole debian-installer source is +documented at + + https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut + + +Further build advice also at the Debian Wiki -- 2.0.0
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