im tryin to build a sendmail 8.11 package..
using apt-get source with a source entry for unstable. it gets mostof the way but dies when trying to link in with NIS stuff. so i'm trying to remove the config references to NIS/NIS+ as i do not need it. everytime i remove them apt-get re patches from original and mychanges are lost. so i change the patch itself and recompress the diff, and apt-get re downloads the patch and my changes are lost. so i specify the --no-download option to apt-get and it still downloads(!?!) i remove the source entries from sources.list and apt bitches that i need to have them(?!) to build a package. also i made a patch file with a newer version (8.11.1-2 instead of -1) and it ignored it. so what woudl the steps be to build this package manually? or preferrably get apt to accept the files i have in the current directory as the ones to use. sendmail builds fine by itself. so all im tryin to do is remove the NIS/NIS+ and LDAP stuff from debian's site.config. or could i force install a version of sendmail from unstable on potato, replace the binaries it installs with my own, and run dpkg-repack ? so the binaries that i replace would be linked against glibc 2.1 and not 2.2. thanks! nate