-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 October 2002 22:32, justin cunningham wrote: > I'm using a debian package built by a friend and it works great however > I need a patch he didn't so he told me to get his source, apply my patch > then debuild. > > So I downloaded his source package orig.tar.gz, .dsc, diff.gz > i386_changes -- basically all files except the .deb and extracted the > source, applied the patch and cd into the source tree and ran 'fakeroot > debuild' and got > > $ fakeroot debuild > debuild: fatal error at line 317: > Cannot find debian/rules anywhere! Are you in the source code tree? > > What did I do wrong? Typically when I apply patches to src packages I > just patch them and use apt-get -b source package but the version in the > debian branch is way old.
Is there a debian/ directory in the root of the source tree? Does it contain a file called rules? Is that file executable? You can find all the answers to these questions by running the simple command: ls -l debian/rules If it isn't there, then either you have done something wrong, or the person who sent you the files has. If it is not executable, make it executable (chmod a+x debian/rules) and try again. Paul Cupis - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mhotIzuKV+SHX/kRAqySAJwNTU65Mxh7JnktvDiK6DVvQ8CUCwCfWd63 3NVzga/YTpyvGkyqcfkfqDQ= =tJ/4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
