[sclug] Keeping track of source installations

[Simon Huggins]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:21:05PM +0200, erik.chakravarty at accenture.com wrote:
> > I'd imagine most folks would say "don't install from source - build
> > your own .debs and install those".

> How difficult is this to do?

What you've found something /not/ in Debian? :)

If it's just a backport this should be /fairly/ easy or you'll find that
people like apt-get.org or backports.org already have packages
backported.

If it's a new version of something that's been debianised before than
apt-get source <package name>
Grab the new tar.gz and untar it.
Stick the debian directory from the old version in the new version pray
a bit and try a dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us (obviously ;))

If it's really really from scratch then it'll be harder but debhelper
helps with the basics.  See http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

I guess it depends what you're trying to package.

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