This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer wrote: >* Methods of package building (30 min). From the basic debian/rules binary, >to dpkg-buildpackage, debuild, and pbuilder. If I've worked it out by then, >also, permanent chroots.
i can add some about tla-buildpackage if you like >* Basic debugging with GDB and friends (30 min - 1 hour, depending on how >much I cover - pick your depth!). Although a lot of software these days is >written in higher level scripting languages, with their own debugging >infrastructure, being able to get into GDB and get a stack trace or similar >is quite useful. Also handy is memory leak checking and bounds checking >with ccmalloc and electric fence. Note: this will not be an in-depth >investigation of how to use GDB. Pretty much it'll follow what I wrote some >time ago at http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16/prog/debugging - but it'll have >live, interactive screwups for extra entertainment. <g> this sounds good -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
