[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote: >>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry J Jaskierny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > there are several packages included in debian archives that are > > outdated. instead of installing the outdated ones, in some > > cases are useless to me, i want to compile an updated copy of > > the source. i'm trying to figure out how i can compile this > > source, and let dpkg/dselect know that they've been installed. > >Try downloading the deb source, patching the source, and then using >dpkg-buildpackage or dpkg --build. (Check the man pages.) Make sure >you get the source from the debian website or with apt, if you have >the deb-src lines in sources.list, as it will contain debian >subdirectory in the source tree, which is needed by dpkg to build >debs.
Having installed dpkg-dev and devscripts: apt-get source package cd package-version [patch] debuild [or] dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i package_version_architecture.deb Or you could download the Debian diffs (package-version.diff.gz - apt-get source will leave them lying around) and apply them over a fresh upstream tarball, then rebuild. dpkg --build does something slightly different; it simply puts a .deb together out of a directory tree with all the compiled binaries etc. in it, rather than actually building from source. See the dpkg-deb(1) man page. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
