Ben Burton wrote: > The easiest way is to sit in the directory above debian/ and type "debuild". > When everything else is done you'll get an error regarding GnuPG signing the > packages, but you can just ignore that. > > However, there are caveats. If you're on a potato system you may run into > problems because the stuff in debian/ may (and certainly does for koffice and > kdesdk) rely on debhelper 3 stuff, and potato only has debhelper 2. > > Also, the debian packages may rely on patches to the original sources. For > instance, if you take a CVS snapshot of the koffice sources you need to apply > the patches in debian/cvs.patch before building the debian packages. > > There may be other issues also; it depends on what packages you're trying to > build.
OK, thanks for all of that -- since I'm running potato, it seem that it would be more trouble than it's worth :( > Btw, why not just download existing packages? I like compiling stuff from source myself, although lack the disc space to keep the compiled sources around :( So I wanted a way to be able to uninstall the package when the next release of KDE is out. Downloading the Debian binaries is definitely something I might do though. Cheers Ben, -- Chris Howells E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 93699029 Web: http://www.chowells.uklinux.net
