On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:30:36AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -------- Paul van Tilburg wrote: -------- > >> Does anyone have a script for creating a deb package for a custom build > >> of ruby? I'm working on my own right now, but my knowlege of Debian, > >> pakaging, and Ruby on Debian is quite limited. > > > > The debian dir of the ruby source package can be used. Put it in the custom > > ruby source tree, add an entry to debian/changelog and you're ready to go > > using dpkg-buildpackage. For more information on the packaging itself, > > please refer to the maintainance guide (apt-get install maint-guide -> > > /usr/share/doc/maint-guide). > > I'm not seeing a debian directory in my ruby source. I just downloaded the > source from ruby-lang.org and compiled my version from there. What "source > package" are you referring to and where can I get it?
Ah, I meant the Debian source package. I use for example in my sources.list: --- # Debian packages deb-src http://www.debian.nl/debian/ unstable main contrib deb http://www.debian.nl/debian/ stable main contrib --- It won't upgrade your system to unstable, but will enable you to use 'apt-get source <source package>' to get the source package from unstable to build it for stable for example. Not that the older stable gets, actually the longer a unstable tree exists, the harder it is to do a backport. > > May I know what you are trying to accomplish? Custom build in what way? > > Mainly we would like to upgrade our current version of Ruby to 1.8.1. And > mod_ruby and Apache to the latest versions. What's the best way to go about > doing that on Debian Woody? That's understandable, ruby1.6 is quite old too :). Backports.org and Apt-get.org are good sources. Maybe, if it can wait, you can hold off a little... sarge will become the next unstable in a matter of weeks. It can save you the trouble, or... you can try to backport it anyway, though. Paul -- Student @ Eindhoven | JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Technology, The Netherlands | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
