Re: Building a source tarball..

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:38:12AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:48:29 + > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > to know, is there a way to do the same thing with a foo.tar.gz? Then > > do a dpkg -i foo.deb? Anyone point me in the right direction? > > > > Or should I stick wi

Re: Building a source tarball..

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:48:29 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > to know, is there a way to do the same thing with a foo.tar.gz? Then > do a dpkg -i foo.deb? Anyone point me in the right direction? > > Or should I stick with: > ./configure > ./make > ./ make install > ? Yes, there is a way, but I d

Building a source tarball..

Hi, I'm running Debian 3.0r1 stable (woody) on a x86 laptop. I know how to build a source tarball into binaries and how to bung 'em into /usr/local/bin. However, I have recently found (thanks to this list) how to build the kernel source into a .deb package using make-kpkg - what I want to know,