On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:20:56AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > one question about the Debian packaging system. Is > there an easy (push-button|one command-line) way of > fetching back the _source_ for a given suite. In the > BSD world, you just cd /usr/ports/foo/* and type > > # make extract > > to retrieve the code. You usually have a line like deb-src http://http.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free in your /etc/apt/sources.list and simply do a apt-get update ; apt-get source <package>
This will get you the most current source of the branch you retrieve (in my case it's testing). To search for packages, you can do this via apt-cache search <phrase>, to show details about them apt-cache show <package>, etc. It's pretty easy. HTH, Andreas Krennmair -- /* let's suicide: */ kill(getpid(),SIGKILL);
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