Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

Cameron Hutchison wrote: Daniel B. wrote: Are there any instructions for proceeding from having downloaded the source package files and _not_ having unpacked things? (I think my current state is as if I had done apt-get source --download-only xfree86 (I didn't actually do --download-

Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

Daniel B. wrote: >Are there any instructions for proceeding from having downloaded >the source package files and _not_ having unpacked things? >(I think my current state is as if I had done > apt-get source --download-only xfree86 >(I didn't actually do --download-only, but from cleaning up a

Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Daniel B. wrote: How do you rebuild a Debian package from source _with_ local modifications? The instructions I've seen all extract source (original plus patches) and build in one step, not giving a chance to make local edits. I frequently do this with couple of

Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

Daniel B. wrote: > How do you rebuild a Debian package from source _with_ local > modifications? > > The instructions I've seen all extract source (original plus > patches) and build in one step, not giving a chance to make > local edits. I frequently do this with couple of packages. For example

Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

Daniel B. wrote: How do you rebuild a Debian package from source _with_ local modifications? The instructions I've seen all extract source (original plus patches) and build in one step, not giving a chance to make local edits. apt-get source will download the package source and the debian s