Re: dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

2007-04-24 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:59:56AM -0700, John Pye wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get my head around package building with Debian, coming > from my earlier experiences with RPMs. two bits: the debian-mentors mailing list and website (google will f

Re: dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

2007-04-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:59:56AM -0700, John Pye wrote: > I'm trying to get my head around package building with Debian, coming > from my earlier experiences with RPMs. Welcome to Debian! > One technique which I found quite good with RPMs was the ability to > create a tarball that *included* th

Re: dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

2007-04-24 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
John Pye wrote: > So: assuming I have complete control over what is in my tarball, what > is the neatest, tidiest and safest way to set up and run an > actual .deb build? > First you need to debianize the tar ball using dh_make. If it is already debianized, you can build the packages using dpk

Re: dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

2007-04-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:59:56AM -0700, John Pye wrote: > Hi all, > > So: assuming I have complete control over what is in my tarball, what > is the neatest, tidiest and safest way to set up and run an > actual .deb build? > Since you mention subversion in the subject line, you want svn-buildpa