On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:44 PM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Now I know it's really bad practice to install development tools on a > production box, thus my plan is to download the source, build it, then > package it as a .deb and install the package via dpkg.
Best sources of packaging tutorials I have found are: http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/ http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ However, when it comes to packaging a new version of an existing package, I find it easier to grab the source package of the older version, reading through it, understanding it's package, then replacing the code in there with the new version and re-build. This lets you skip through a lot of the basic structure stuff that you don't need, also it will include lots of the strange quirks that the expert packagers have already fixed. $ apt-get source asterisk /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
