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June 2014
Abstract
This is not about how to construct a package source. It's only on how to build packages from a given source. We go from simple dpkg-buildpackage to git-buildpackage for multiple distros.
Table of Contents
The simplest way to build a package.
Fetch some source package
apprentice@host:~/packaging$ apt-get source bash
Try to build
apprentice@host:~/packaging$ cd bash-4.2
apprentice@host:~/packaging/bash-4.2$ dpkg-buildpackage
<snip>
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: bison texi2html gettext:any sharutils
<snip>
Retry after installing build-time dependencies
apprentice@host:~/packaging/bash-4.2$ sudo apt-get install bison texi2html gettext sharutils
apprentice@host:~/packaging/bash-4.2$ dpkg-buildpackage -d
<snip lengthy output>
(There's often some trickery involved in building packages. The '-d' option is to prevent bash from choking on 'gettext:any', which is listed as a dependency, but satisfied by 'gettext'.)
Finding the package
apprentice@host:~/packaging/bash-4.2$ ls -trl ..
total 7332
-rw-rw-r-- 1 apprentice apprentice 4266049 Feb 24 2011 bash_4.2.orig.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 apprentice apprentice 85337 Jun 28 15:43 bash_4.2-2ubuntu2.1.diff.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 apprentice apprentice 1348 Jun 28 15:43 bash_4.2-2ubuntu2.1.dsc
drwxrwxr-x 9 apprentice apprentice 4096 Jun 28 15:49 bash-4.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 apprentice apprentice 1201528 Jun 28 15:49 bash-doc_4.2-2ubuntu2.1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 apprentice apprentice 986702 Jun 28 15:49 bash_4.2-2ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 apprentice apprentice 92116 Jun 28 15:49 bash-builtins_4.2-2ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 apprentice apprentice 851998 Jun 28 15:49 bash-static_4.2-2ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 apprentice apprentice 2432 Jun 28 15:49 bash_4.2-2ubuntu2.1_amd64.changes
There are some intersting options to dpkg-buildpackage:
-us -uc to sign neither binary packages not changes files.
-sa to include the orig.tar.gz in the source package.
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