Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 08:30:05PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > > Sounds liek a stupid question I know. First the reason. I am trying to > > get amanda to work on my debian box. I am still on bo and there is no > > .deb binary, so I think simple i'll just grab the hamm source stuff. > > > > I found the .orig file and a .diff file. I thought I could just untar > > the .orig, and then pun pathch < from the .diff file. But this results > > in lot's of files in the directory I am working dorm, and not in the > > appropriate subdirectories. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > Please read the file source-unpack.txt which is put in the doc directory > of our ftp server. It tells you to use either dpkg-source and shows > you the appropriate set of commands you have to enter if you're unpacking > the source manually. > > > You have to use "patch -p0" and create the debian subdirectory > before applying the patch. > > Regards > > Joey >
I've rebuilt hamm packages for my bo (libc5) system several times. Here's the general procedure: First, I basically use dpkg-source, but the bo dpkg-source can't quite handle hamm source packages; it's a bit annoying, but here's how I fix it. Let's say I want to compile the package foobar, version 1.2-3. ftp the files foobar_1.2-3.dsc, foobar_1.2-3.diff.gz and foobar_1.2-3.tar.gz into (this is just my convention so that I can find the files later) /usr/local/src/build/foobar Then, I need to munge the .orig.tar.gz file a bit so that bo's dpkg-source can deal with it. #(as root) cd /usr/local/src/build/foobar chown martind.martind . * #(as martind) cd /usr/local/src/build/foobar tar -xzf foobar_1.2-3.orig.tar.gz rm foobar_1.2-3.tar.gz mv foobar-1.2 foobar-1.2.orig # This is the change between hamm and bo tar -cf foobar_1.2-3.orig.tar foobar-1.2.orig gzip foobar_1.2-3.orig.tar ls -l foobar_1.2-3.orig.tar.gz md5sum foobar_1.2-3.orig.tar.gz I then go and edit the foobar_1.2-3.dsc file and down where it gives the size and md5 checksum for foobar_1.2-3.orig.tar.gz, I replace it with the size and md5 checksum given by the last two commands. Then, I do: dpkg-source -x foobar_1.2-3.dsc This creates the directory /usr/local/src/build/foobar/foobar-1.2 - then, I can go ahead with the build process as for bo packages: cd foobar-1.2 #(edit the file debian/rules if I need to make any changes - # reconfigure things the way I want, etc.) debian/rules configure debian/rules build #(then su to root - the earlier commands were done as unpriviledged martind) debian/rules binary cd .. dpkg -i foobar_1.2-3.deb This is reconstructed from memory, but I think it's resonably accurate. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .