On Wednesday, 14. March 2007, Markus Spring wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am in the process of compiling digikam 9.1 and all support packages for debian
> sarge. I set up a clean installation for this task - no backports, nothing, just
> plain sarge.
Have a look at pbuilder. It provides a clean environment to build pkgs.
For the sarge-backport test, a chroot environment (see debootstrap and
dchroot) is very helpful.
>
> For myself I would not need clean packages according to debian standards -
> checkinstall will do
>
> However I could provide those packages for others on my website, provided they
> are "clean"
Great!
>
> Now I do not have a thorough understanding of creating debian packages, so a
> bunch of specfile-stubs and maybe a hint to a short and comprehensable howto
> would help me gain speed.
You can always download the .tar.gz .diff.gz and .dsc files from the source
archives of debian.
dpkg-source -x name-of-the-dsc
will unpack pkgs
dch -i
will incr the pkgs version. Edit debian/changelog the version <debian->~myname1
debuild -us -uc
will build the pkg. If it fails, use debuild -us -uc -nc until you succeed, then
rebuild once more with debuild -us -uc, to make sure everything is really right.
last but not least you can build in a clean environment with
pbuilder build name-of-my-backported.dsc
Further reading
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/MOTU/Packages/New I'm sure debian wiki
has something similar.
Don't spend too much time with pkgin details. As you backport pkgs most of
work is already done. Feel free to ping me on freenode IRC #digikam nick: allee
You may also look at
http://buildserver.net/. Its tries to build pkgs for several
distro versions. Maybe you find something useful for sarge there already.
>
> All help is greatly appreciated
Your welcome!
Achim
> Markus
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