[ILUG] debian packaging questions

[Mel Gorman]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, John P. Looney wrote:

>     rpm -qf file            (find out what package owns a specific file)

dpkg -S /path/to/filename

>     rpm -i http://path.to/source.srpm             (install a source rpm)

apt-get source -b packagename (requres root)

apt-get build-dep packagename will download and install the necessary
packages

>     rpm -bp SPECS/file.spec (unpack and prepare a source RPM for building)
>

not sure, I don't really play with source packages to be honest.

You mention on another thread that you couldn't find the package for
vmlinuz. In Debian Land, /vmlinuz is always a symbolic link which is
created by the postinstall script. So for example

mel at skynet:/$ ls -l vmlinuz
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           39 Dec 12 14:57 vmlinuz ->
boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19skynet-2.4.19-ipacct

mel at skynet:/$ dpkg -S /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19skynet-2.4.19-ipacct
kernel-image-2.4.19skynet-2.4.19-ipacct: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19skynet-2.4.19-ipacct

and there is my package. yey

>  Can these be done on debian ? I did an "apt-get source xfree86", and it
> just got me the tarball and the debian packages. i've no idea how to start
> building the damn thing, and there is no mention of building (unless from
> a .deb) in the apt or dpkg packages.
>

the tool you are actually interested in is dpkg-buildpackage. I'm not
going to even pretend I know how to use it, as I said I don't really deal
with source packages.

-- 
Mel Gorman
MSc Student, University of Limerick
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel