Month: June 2009

  • modifying and building a debian package from source

    I can’t work out where to document this so I’ll document it here – maybe it will help someone oneday.
    If you want to modify a debian package and then build it…
    apt-get source . Then cd –
    make whatever changes you need to make. debian/rules and debian/control.in are interesting.
    then do a ‘dch -n’ to change the version number of the package to a user version.
    and finaly:
    dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc -us
    stick -nc on the end if you don’t want a make clean to be done