Re: Basic debian package question

1999-07-14 Thread Mark Glassberg 
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 02:26:25PM -0400, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> 
> > The dosemu source packages have "orig" and "diff" in their names.  How do
> > these packages work together?
> 
> There are several files that work together to form an overall
> package.  The two you mentioned are used when building the Debian
> package from the original source.
> 

What commands are used to build the package?

Re: Basic debian package question

1999-07-14 Thread Samuel R. Scarano 
> The dosemu source packages have "orig" and "diff" in their names.  How do
> these packages work together?

the "-orig" is the pristine source code, straight from the author(s). I
believe that the "-diff" contains the modifications made by the Debian
maintainers to make it fit easily into Debian, as diff(1) output. If you
want to see the code used to make the actual debian package, untar the
"orig", and then use patch(1) to apply the "diff".

Personally, I never bother with the diffs -- I like to keep things as
simple as possible. (However, you may have to for one reason or
another.)

Re: Basic debian package question

1999-07-14 Thread Brian Servis 
*- On 14 Jul, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote about "Re: Basic debian package question"
> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> 
>> The dosemu source packages have "orig" and "diff" in their names.  How do
>> these packages work together?
> 
> There are several files that work together to form an overall
> package.  The two you mentioned are used when building the Debian
> package from the original source.
> 

To clarify. The 'orig' is the prestine upstream source. The 'diff' is
the diff file(see the patch man page) that adds the Debian modifications
and control files to make the Debian package.  There is also a 'dsc'
file that contains the package name, version, maintainer etc.  If you
want to build the package locally on your machine then install the
dpkg-dev package and download the three files to a common directory and
issue the command,

dpkg-source -x .dsc

This will create a directory for the package.  Then to build it cd into
that directory and issue the commands,(you will need to make sure you
have the appropriate development libraries and headers installed)

./debian/rules binary

You will end up with the Debian package built in the parent directory.

The latest apt has an option built in to do all this for you.  Search
the list archives for discussion on how to do this.

-- 
Brian 
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Re: Basic debian package question

1999-07-14 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq 
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Mark Glassberg wrote:

> The dosemu source packages have "orig" and "diff" in their names.  How do
> these packages work together?

There are several files that work together to form an overall
package.  The two you mentioned are used when building the Debian
package from the original source.

-- 
Jean Pierre

Basic debian package question

1999-07-14 Thread Mark Glassberg 
The dosemu source packages have "orig" and "diff" in their names.  How do
these packages work together?