[H-GEN] Depackaging and repackaging Debian packages?

[Anthony Towns]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:58:37AM +1000, David Findlay wrote:
> 1. Where is the source code for the Debian installer?

CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous at cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot
The module is boot-floppies.

> 2. Can I easily depackage, configure, and then repackage a debian package?

dpkg -i foo.deb
#...
dpkg-repack foo
ls *.deb

That's not very attractive, and different to duplicate reliably though.

apt-get source foo
cd foo-*
vi debian/changelog
#...
debuild
cd ..
ls *.deb

...is better.

Cheers,
aj

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