On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:55:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You could still get the unstable source packages and build the deb > from them. Now I really wish I could figure out the damn details as > to how to do this. Any one care to explain? I'm lost in a maze of > manpages all alike.
> [dpkg-source -x? dpkg-buildpackage -b? dpkg-deb?? Red Hat makes this > so easy it's not funny.] dpkg-source -x (or unpack yourself). Then cd into the top directory of the package and say "dpkg-buildpackage". Specifying "-b" will stop a source package being generated, which will speed things up a bit. "-us" and "-uc" disable signing of the .dsc and .changes respectively. Personally I always found dpkg easier than RPM for building packages, but perhaps it's just me. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
