On 07-Sep-99 Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > I trying to learn to build packages from their source packages and > I've run into trouble. > > I've just downloaded an source package from my mirror and now I'm > triying to make a compiled package. The package is ppp from the unstable > tree. > > After downloaded I've executed: > > $ dpkg-source -x ppp_2.3.9-1.dsc > $ dpkg --build ppp-2.3.9 >
dpkg --build creates a deb from a compiled source tree. What you want to do is either: cd ppp-2.3.9 a) debian/rules binary b) dpkg-buildpackage -us That will make the deb for you. Be prepared to install other debs to meet compile time depends.