Hi Indraveni, The Ubuntu wiki itself has the information you need:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Merging All other info you need can be sourced from: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU best, Jerome On 10/16/06, Indraveni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in knowing how ubuntu is maintaining its packages. I have > seen that every debian pacakge has been recompiled and renamed into ubuntu > packages. How this is done, is there any tool present to automate this > process? As per my knowledge to rename a debian pacckage into ubuntu, > 1) we need to extrac the debian source > 2) change the version name in the debian/changlog file to ubuntu (from > debian) > 3) then do any other necessary modifications like replacing the ubuntu > images etc. > 4) then recompile it uding dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot command. > > In order to do this procedure for all 15000 pacakges of debian (stable, > unstable, testing) it will consume lot of resources and man power. > > So is there any tool present or u r using for this process to automate. > Please some one give me this information. > > Awaiting for your reply > > Thanks & Regards > Indraveni K > Project Engineer > CDAC - Chennai > India > > > ________________________________ > Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India > Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get > it NOW > > > -- > Ubuntu-motu mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu > > > -- Jerome Gotangco Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 0x9E379FC6 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
