Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well, I always just ar x'd the .deb, then edited the control file, >> then used debian/rules binary to build a new .deb... > So ... where are you getting debian/rules? That's in *source* packages, > not binary packages (i.e. .debs).
My bad. <sheepish grin> Am getting too used to the convenience of apt-get source. That said, kudos to Debian maintainers - I regularly point to the ease of apt-get sourcing anything on my system as one of the main cool things about Debian compared to certain other distributions... <laugh> What's the canonical way of tweaking a .deb, then? I usually grab the source because I'll probably want to configure it differently or study the code. On a not-quite-related note... I'm having problems (well, really just inconveniences) with a non-Debianized Emacs CVS. I have an equivs package for emacs21 and symlinks set up to make sure things get installed into the right locations, so most Debian emacs packages install properly. However, it's a bit of a kludge. I suppose the right way to do this is to wait until Emacs 21.3.whatever hits unstable, or just not care about the kludginess of it all.. |) -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 4 BS CS Ateneo geekette interests: emacs, linux, wearables, teaching compsci -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
