On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:58 am, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="James Gray">
>
> > Here's the way I read the man pages (as root):
> > apt-get source <package>
> > cd <package>
> > ./configure --with-all-the-opts-i-need
> > dpkg-buildpackage
> > dpkg -i <package>.deb
> >
> > Or is there a better way?? Thanks in advance folks :)
>
> Sure, try this:
>
> apt-get source <package>
> vi <package>*/debian/rules
> (modify the configure arguments in here, under the configure rule [1])
> dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot [2]
> dpkg -i ../<package>*.deb
>
> [1] depending on what you're changing, you might have to get your hands
> dirty on more detailed packaging foo, even if you just add a configure
> parameter. this will generally only happen with complicated and/or messy
> packages.
>
> [2] because you should always build your packages/software/anything as an
> unprivileged user! :-)
>
> - Jeff
Thanks Jeff - I was on the right track then :) This is good coz it means I
can sail the problematic FreeBSD box up the river. (Refuses to use DMA for
the hard-drives which is crucifying squid, plus other nastiness).
As for [2] - yeh, that was a bit of typo. Made that mistake once with a
"make clean" that was doing some "rm -f *" juju for a dodgey package that
recursed a symlinmk to root (/). Goodbye system!
--James
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