On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:59AM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > I want to compile stock gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-2 with a patch > gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-4.diff.gz applied. > > How do I do that? What do I need, more than a compiling > gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-2 and the > gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-4.diff.gz? > > Is there a Debian way of doing things, so that I end up with a > gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-4_amd64.deb package that I can install?
Well something like this might work: apt-get source gnome-system-monitor That will get the sources to the current one. If you then in a temp dir extract the current debian .orig.tar.gz and the new tar file, you can do a diff -ruN between the dirs and save that to a file. Then go to the directory apt-get source created and apply the changes: /path/gnome-system-monitor-version# patch -p1 --dry-run < ../path/to/saved/diff If it says everything ok, then do it without dryrun to really do it. If it looks very broken (unlikely for a small version change) then you have to figure out why. A few line offsets are usually nothing to worry about. You can then add a new changelog entry (using dch -v 2.8.1-4) and mention that you updated to a new upstream, and finally you can dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc to create the .deb Should be close to what you need to do at least. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
