Desperate for deb docs

[Star]

As I recall (it's been a bit) if you're on a deb-like system it's
$ apt-get source foo-package

Then you can alter, rebuild, and make a deb from that.  It will be
deployed in the current directory as ./foo-package-version/

That also assumes that your /etc/apt/sources.list file contain the
correct deb-src entries and that they're available.

On 10/16/07, Tyson Sawyer <tyson at j3.org> wrote:
> OK, that was helpful.  But there is still a big picture thing that I
> don't understand:
>
> How does one re-build a .deb package?  Where is the equivalent of srpm packages?
>
> What if I want to rebuild a package on a different architecture or
> with some minor change?
>
> Thanks!
> Ty
>
> On 10/16/07, Star <nhstar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I need docs on how to build .deb files. I do not want docs on how to build
> > > .deb files for a debian distribution. I do not want docs on debian policy.
> > > I need to understand the intricasies of how to write control files (e.g.,
> > > control, preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm, etc...)
> >
> > I found the IBM docs very useful at
> > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-debpkg.html
> >
> > But my packages tend to be very basic with little in the way of
> > dependencies.  You may have already exceeded what this is telling
> > ya...
> >
> > HIH
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