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Re: [LUG] Debian portage

 

Ben Goodger wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is there an easy and reliable way for me to download and compile packages
> rather than simply extracting the binary, but still having dpkg do all the
> stuff?

cd some/empty/subdir
apt-get source package
cd package-version/
debuild

That's it.

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