Re: To build debian packages from source

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-10 10:25 +0200, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Kevin Ross wrote: dpkg-buildpackage will compile the code and create a .deb package that you can then install. dpkg-buildpackage is a script with an associated man page. Only prob

Re: To build debian packages from source

2009-07-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 06:06:21AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > what is the best tool to build debian packages from source that one > have downloaded with > > apt-get source package-name # apt-get build-dep package-name > and changed the downloaded source? Use "debuild" or "debian/rules"

Re: To build debian packages from source

2009-07-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-07-10 10:25 +0200, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Kevin Ross wrote: > >> dpkg-buildpackage will compile the code and create a .deb package that you >> can then install. > > dpkg-buildpackage is a script with an associated man page. Only > problem is I can't find it on my Lenn

Re: To build debian packages from source

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Kevin Ross wrote: dpkg-buildpackage will compile the code and create a .deb package that you can then install. dpkg-buildpackage is a script with an associated man page. Only problem is I can't find it on my Lenny system. Is it part of another package? build-essential may

Re: To build debian packages from source

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin Ross
dpkg-buildpackage will compile the code and create a .deb package that you can then install.