I demand that Gerald Dachs may or may not have written... >> Does anyone use checkinstall instead of "make install" in order to >> build a xine-lib debian package?
> This is not the right way to build a debian package, it is a dirty hack. > All the files that are necessary for building a debian package are already > there if you check xine-lib-1.2 out using 'hg clone > http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib-1.2'. Or if you grab a snapshot tarball (but not from Debian experimental, since that tarball was built using "make dist"; OTOH, you have the .diff.gz). > With 'debuild -uc -us -rfakeroot' in the xine-lib-1.2 directory, the > xline-lib gets compiled and you have debian packages afterwords one > directory up. As well as source packages, which you (probably) don't need or want. I normally just use "debuild binary", but adding in the signing-prevention options is useful for others. It does depend on whether you're distributing or not, but if you are, I suggest "make dist-gzip", unpack the tarball, copy the Debian directory into it, add a changelog entry (it's worth mentioning the changeset ID) then build. > At least this is the way I build my ubuntu packages for xine-lib with vdpau > patches. You have the right idea. :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output less CO2 => avoid boiling weather. TIME IS RUNNING OUT *FAST*. A stitch in time saves nine. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
