Re: How do I use the source package disributions?
On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 08:30:05PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> Sounds liek a stupid question I know. First the reason. I am trying to
> get amanda to work on my debian box. I am still on bo and there is no
> .deb binary, so I think simple i'll just grab the hamm source stuff.
>
> I found the .orig file and a .diff file. I thought I could just untar
> the .orig, and then pun pathch < from the .diff file. But this results
> in lot's of files in the directory I am working dorm, and not in the
> appropriate subdirectories.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Please read the file source-unpack.txt which is put in the doc directory
of our ftp server. It tells you to use either dpkg-source and shows
you the appropriate set of commands you have to enter if you're unpacking
the source manually.
You have to use "patch -p0" and create the debian subdirectory
before applying the patch.
Regards
Joey
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