On 08-Dec-2001 scott worley wrote: > Hi, > > I've been reading the man pages on dpkg & dpkg-deb to find out if it's > possible to covert the deb source directory: > > foo-x.y.z.orig > debian-dir with all the patches > upstream-source-dir > > to a source tar ball with all patches applied? > > dpkg & dpkg-deb man pages talk about build rules being applied but the > result is still a deb. I guess I could manually try to extract the > patches from the files in debian dir but for the package in question > there are quite a few. Is there a tool to just apply the patches to the > upstream source so I could then tar ball it? >
this is not how Debian packages exist. Each source has a orig.tar.gz, a .dsc, and a .diff.gz. The diff is every difference between the upstream and Debian. So to get what you want simply: dpkg-source -x foo.dsc tar czvf foo.version.tgz foo-version/ Now, some packages do actually have patches in the debian dir, but this is not standard.
