On Tuesday 26 June 2001 08:43, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > the quick and dirty: > > cd kdelibs (for example) > debuild > > > that's what I do to build all the packages... debuild is part > of the devscripts package. I *believe* it depends on all the > correct bits. debuild will verify that you have all the build > dependencies installed and if you don't will complain and stop.
What's the difference between this and dpkg-buildpackage? Which is better? I *always use dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot. And well, I think you still need to do a dh_make to create the debian/rules template etc. Unless the KDE cvs is already debianized? debuild also fails without prior debianization.

