I am having problems installing the wu-ftpd package from source. The whole reason I am grabbing the source is that I want to use a more recent version of wu-ftpd than what is available with the slink binary packages. If I can build the package from the source files to give me a slink compatible package, it is all the better.
I update my /etc/apt/sources.list with http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free and then I did a # apt-get update $ apt-get source wu-ftpd and it retrieved the 2.6.0 wu-ftpd. It looks as if it applied the patch for me. I got an erro with the "debian/rules" binary though $ cd wu-ftpd-2.6.0 $ debian/rules binary dh_testdir make: dh_testdir: Command not found make: *** [build-stamp] Error 127 Do you know what this error indicates? On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:37:32PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 06:24:50PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: > > I posted this to the list once already, but I don't know if it made it. > > > > I am trying to compile a debian package from source. I can go to the > > package's > > web page and get the original source along with the diff. How do I apply > > the > > patch? > > > > If I do a > > > > $ tar zxf wu-ftpd_2.6.0.orig.tar.gz > > $ zcat wu-ftpd_2.6.0-4.diff.gz | patch -p1 > > can't find file to patch at input line 3 > > Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? > > The text leading up to this was: > > -------------------------- > > |--- wu-ftpd-2.6.0.orig/src/ftpcount.c > > |+++ wu-ftpd-2.6.0/src/ftpcount.c > > -------------------------- > > File to patch: > > > > > > > > I am interested in the wu-ftpd package. > > > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/source/net/wu-ftpd_2.6.0.orig.tar.gz > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/source/net/wu-ftpd_2.6.0-4.diff.gz > > To create a package from the Debian source, you should also install > dpkg-dev and download > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/source/net/wu-ftpd_2.6.0-4.dsc > > Then type "dpkg-source -x wu-ftpd_2.6.0-4.dsc" (as root). This will > unpack the source and apply the patch. You should then cd to the > wu-ftpd-2.6.0 directory which was created and type "debian/rules binary". > This will compile the source and create the Debian package for you. -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
