How to build your custom Debian packages

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Overview

We provide the necessary files to build your own Debian packages for UMIP. It is maintained as a git repository that can directly be cloned as a debian/ folder. The files in the folder are used by dpkg-buildpackage to build the package. It also contain an init scripts for the daemon and dummy configuration files.

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Create your custom packages

First, install some necessary packages: 

$ sudo apt-get install fakeroot build-essential debhelper quilt

Clone our umip.git repository: 

$ git clone git://git.umip.org/umip.git

Then, in the UMIP directory, clone our debian.git repository: 

$ cd umip/
$ git clone git://git.umip.org/debian.git

If you want to include our experimental set of patches, you can also clone our patches.git repository in the debian/ folder. In that case, when dpkg-buildpackage is called (later in the document), quilt takes care (as asked in the Debian "rule" file in the debian/ folder) of applying the patches: 

$ cd debian/
$ git clone git://git.umip.org/patches.git
$ cd ../

Let's build the package. Verify that you execute the following command in the umip/ folder: 

$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -sd -b -i -I.git
...
dpkg-deb: building package `umip' in `../umip_0.4-19_i386.deb'.
 dpkg-genchanges -b -sd >../umip_0.4-19_i386.changes
dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code
dpkg-buildpackage: binary only upload (no source included)

You can then install the UMIP package with: 

$ sudo dpkg -i ../umip_0.4-19_i386.deb
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