[TriLUG] an actual Linux question

[James Olin Oden]

On 5/23/07, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:54:09AM -0400, James Olin Oden wrote:
> > You should be able to get the source for the original package and buil
> > against the latest apache.  Apache in etch may have changed, but there
> > probably are newer sources that build against the new apache.  This is
> > a general answer comming from an rpm guy would normally say "go get
> > the old or newer srpm for this and rebuild", but even though your in
> > Debian land, its likely to hold true.
>
> Add a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list like:
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main
>
> Then you can say:
> apt-get source libapache2-mod-auth-mysql
>
> This will grab the debian files (.tar.gz, .patch, and .dsc) used to build it
> from testing.  You now have a couple of options for building.
>
> The one I'll recommend is to use a package called 'pbuilder'.  Once
> installed, you'll do something like:
>
> pbuilder create
>
> This creates a clean build environment that subsequent package builds will
> use.  Then:
>
> pbuilder build something.dsc
>
> This will extract that build environ, chroot into it, check all your deps,
> -grab the needed dev packages, and build the package.  The result will be in
> /var/cache/pbuilder/result.
>
> Daniel Chen turned me on to the pbuilder solution, so if I miseed something,
> hopefully he can correct me.
>
> The other option is to invoke dpkg-buildpackage (part of dpkg-deb) directly,
> but this requires you to manually grab all the -dev packages into your live
> system.
>
Thanks for the instructions on how to build "blessed" debian packages.
 So does Debian have a container like an SRPM or does you just grab
those three files always?

Thanks...james