On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:52:59PM +0300, Vladimir Zolotykh wrote: > Hi, > > I'm rather new to Debian system, so don't blame me too much if you > find my question to be trivial or already explained somewhere. I've > spent reasonable time to find the answer alone and when failed decided > to ask a question which runs thus: > > [Using Sarge] I'm using libmotif3 binary package 2.2.3-1. Its "option > menu" is faulty, the window abruptly loses it's focus. Recently I've > been told that this bug is fixed > (http://bugs.motifzone.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1260). But how to use this > patch in Debian like manner? I decided to 1) download the source > package "openmotif", 2) apply the patch to the sources, 3) rebuild the > libmotif3.deb and reinstall it. Here is my problem: dpkg-buildpackage > expects openMotif-2.2.3.tar.gz as a point to start from. It unpacks > it, compiles files and finally builds the libmotif3.deb file. To apply > the patch I have to interfere after unpacking the .tar file but before > the compilation process starts. How I can do that? > My Debian package customization HOWTO has the information you need:
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/?page=debcustomize The example I give is that of modiifying the compilation directives, but patching the source works equally as well. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
pgpVgZBE7JzLh.pgp
Description: PGP signature
