*- On 18 Jun, Colin Marquardt wrote about "Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug" > * Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Now it downloads the sane diff file as 17KB compressed, but I have to add >> the .gz suffix to the filename in the netscape dialog or rename after. >> Netscape seems to insist on stripping the extension. > > I have seen this behaviour without adding any MIME stuff. If anyone > knows, it should be the folks at http://www.ufaq.org (the Netscape > Unofficial FAQ). I haven´t checked, as wget or pavuk are much nicer. >
I just discovered that apt has support for downloading the source packages, extracting them and building a binary in one simple command. All you need to do is add an appropiate line to your sources.list. Basically it is the same as a binary URI line except that it starts with deb-src. If you are running slink and want to compile a potato package the just change the distribution to potato and it will grab the potato source.(of course rtfm on apt, apt-get and sources.list) deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free Then run apt-get update and call apt-get like % apt-get source hello Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 92.9kB of source archives. Get:1 http://debian.midco.net potato/main hello 1.3-14.3 (dsc) [619B] Get:2 http://debian.midco.net potato/main hello 1.3-14.3 (tar) [87.7kB] Get:3 http://debian.midco.net potato/main hello 1.3-14.3 (diff) [4619B] Fetched 92.9kB in 18s (4908B/s) dpkg-source: extracting hello in hello-1.3 If you add the --compile option you get a package built from the source % apt-get --compile source hello Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 92.9kB of source archives. Get:1 http://debian.midco.net potato/main hello 1.3-14.3 (dsc) [619B] Get:2 http://debian.midco.net potato/main hello 1.3-14.3 (tar) [87.7kB] Get:3 http://debian.midco.net potato/main hello 1.3-14.3 (diff) [4619B] Fetched 92.9kB in 19s (4757B/s) dpkg-source: extracting hello in hello-1.3 [output from hello-1.3/debian/build & binary] dpkg-deb: building package `hello' in `../hello_1.3-14.3_i386.deb'. Very cool!!! -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
