Re: [SLUG] Creating a really really simple .deb package

[David Gillies <daveg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Visser wrote:
> This technique works with what I'm doing to the point of the version
> numbers. I have managed to get dpkg-repack to build into a folder, where
> I can modify the version number in ./DEBIAN/control, but can't seem to
> build any further from there afterwards.
>
> I tried "sudo dpkg-repack --root=./ metacity-common" on the generated
> folder, but it complained that the package wasn't installed. I suspect
> --root has to point to a chroot installation or something.
>
> Any more pointers?

To rebuild a package, I usually:

1. apt-get source <package>
2. cd <package>
3. dch -i
   This will open debian/changelog , then you can increment the package 
version/release/etc, put in changelog info, etc
4. dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
   This will only build the binary packages, no source stuff will be 
spat out

before you run this, make sure that <package-name>/debian/control is 
executable

At step 4, it might complain about unsatisfied build dependancies. I'm 
pretty sure there's a nice apt/dpkg automatic way of doing this, but I 
can't remember what is it. It'll tell you anyhow and you can then do the 
usual apt-get install <blah>

--
dave.