Building Debian Packages from bzr

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Easily Build Your Own

  • Install Bazaar and bzr-builddeb as well as the build dependencies dpatch and debhelper. (“<tt>apt-get install bzr-builddeb dpatch debhelper</tt>”)

  • Check out my debian build scripts . I suggest doing this in a separate directory. For example:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~hexmode/i2ce/debian-dev i2ce
$ bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~hexmode/ihris-common/debian-dev ihris-common
$ bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~hexmode/ihris-manage/debian-dev ihris-manage

  • In each directory, run “<tt>bzr builddeb</tt>”.

$ (cd i2ce; bzr builddeb)
$ (cd ihris-common; bzr builddeb)
$ (cd ihris-manage; bzr builddeb)

  • You should now have a subdirectory named <tt>build-area</tt> with three .deb files in it. Before installing them, you’ll need to install the runtime dependencies: <tt>aptitude install dbcommon-config ucf libapache2-mod-php5 php-i18nv2 php-mdb2-driver-mysql php-text-password</tt>. At this time, some are only available from the IntraHealth Debian repository above.

  • Install the Debian packages you created: <tt>sudo dpkg -i build-area/*.deb</tt>