Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm a newbie to Debian (a former Red Hat user) and am wondering how to >recompile a .deb from a src .deb with different compile options than the >default ones? In Red Hat you change rpmrc and then type rpm -rebuild ><src-package.srpm>. I assume there is something similar in Debian.
Yes, you cd to the top-level directory of the unpacked source tree, change debian/rules and possibly other files, and type 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' (you need the dpkg-dev and fakeroot packages). If you install the devscripts package you can just type 'debuild'. (For both of those commands, adding '-us -uc' will stop the package building scripts from trying to sign the source package or the .changes file, which unless you're the maintainer you normally won't be able to do.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
