[aklug] Re: making a source package in ubuntu

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> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]=20
> On Behalf Of James Zuelow
> Sent: Thursday, 05 February, 2009 14:18
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> IIRC Ubuntu has "checkinstall" and you can use that for one-off debs.
>=20

Sorry - I didn't read your message carefully enough. I don't think
checkinstall will build a source package for you, just a binary.

> I've always just done dpkg-buildpackage for things that I want to turn
> into debs that aren't packaged for Debian. (ntfs-config,=20
> mod_auth_ntlm,
> etc.)

dpkg-buildpackage can build a source package for you. (And a binary
too!)
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Received on Thu Feb 5 14:36:23 2009