Colin Watson wrote: > Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >However, the last few lines of output when compiling the .deb seem a > >little worrying:dpkg-deb: > >---------------------------------------------------- > >building package `hotplug' in `../hotplug_0.0.20010228-3_all.deb'. > >dpkg-genchanges -b > >dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code > >dpkg-buildpackage: no source included in upload > >---------------------------------------------------- > > > >Does this indicate an error? Does anyone know what this means about > >"binary-only" and "no source included"? > > > >I thought this compiled it from source??????? I don't understand, > >please someone enlighten me. > > You can ignore it. Those messages are for maintainers uploading things > to the Debian archive, and means that the build only produced new binary > packages and didn't change the source. It's not an error.
Excellent, it worked! > > >Also, another question; when I issued the command: apt-get source > >--build hotplug, it put all the source files and compiled .deb in the > >current directory. Should I have made a directory > >/usr/local/src/hotplug and cd'ed to it before issuing this command? Is > >this where you should keep these source packages in a traditional debian > >layout? > > I don't know if there is a traditional Debian layout. :) I have > ~/src/debian/<package>/... for each of my own packages, and > ~/src/packages/<package>/... for other people's packages; in some ways > this doesn't make a lot of sense, but it sort of grew that way and I've > got used to it. It should probably be in your home directory, though, as > you can and should build almost all packages as an ordinary non-root > user, provided that you have fakeroot installed. Thanks for the info. I will copy them over to my home directory. Thanks. Mark.
