rebuilding an Ubuntu package
 

Hi,

I'd like to rebuild ethereal to change some of the options passed to ./configure.

The problem is I'm having difficulty finding instructions how to do this.

I've gotten as far as apt-get source ethereal.

I've found a file debian/rules that contains a ./configure line. Is this the file I should edit in order to make the changes I need?

Also, how do I change the version number the package is given? I'd like to change it to indicate it's not from the normal repository.

Once I've worked that out, what do I do then?

I'm sorry if this seems obvious to most people, but it's all completely new to me!

Thanks

H.

Well -you might want ot have a look at those links:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re...pository-howto
http://people.debian.org/~jaldhar/make_package3.html
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap...ndling.en.html

You do change the .config in the Debian rules but that is only half the fun.
You need to make a package and set it up in a local repository and pin that so it gets prefered over the Debian repositories or the next update will thrown it out.
The devlib dependencies can get handled automatically with apt-get (apt-get build-dep).

If you got nothing in there that depends on wireshark - meaning you only want to install it from source it would be much easier to just compile it and throw it in there.

Google for man auto-apt to resolve dependencies for devlibs automatically.

Thanks for the reply and the confirmation that debian/rules is the place to edit to change the configure.

The one thing I still don't know how to do is to change the version number.

As for creating a repository, that's not something I wish to do at this point in time. A simple dpkg -i will be enough on my new ethereal package for the time being. The machine it's going onto is a "frozen" system and not publically accessible so never has apt-get update run on it.

That second link you provided is marked as "don't use anymore", and the new link it points to is way too complicated for me. I was under the (wrong) impression that rebuilding a source package was a relatively simple affair. Perhaps I shall just compile from source and be done in a matter of minutes.

Thanks again,

H.

If you just want to change the options to the configure script then, change them in debian/rules and to change the version number (I'm not 100% on this) you should just add an entry to the top of debian/changelog
Then just do (from the top of the source dir:
if you don't have fakeroot installed use sudo
then you should have the debs in the directory above the source.