src/2011-08-29



Upgrading Debian brought this:

     --- /etc/sudoers
     +++ /etc/sudoers.dpkg-new
     @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
     -# /etc/sudoers
      #
      # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
      #
     +# Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
     +# directly modifying this file.
     [...]

I really dislike these `*.d'  directory  approaches.   They  make
sense  on  large systems, yes, but most systems today are desktop
machines or small servers. Maybe we should ask ourselves if Debi-
an  wants  to  be a system for servers or ``The universal OS'' or
the best package management system.

This is just another example why I am so happy with my switch  to
Crux.   (However,  for  ``normal''  users and for large servers I
keep on recommending Debian.)


In order to create a Debian package, I had  set  up  an  unstable
system  in  qemu.   As I neither use kvm nor kqemu, the system is
quite slow. Hence it took me several hours to get the build  sys-
tem set up and the package finished.

Now, just for the record:

     # upgrade to unstable and install what you need
     apt-get update
     apt-get upgrade
     apt-get install build-essential cowbuilder piuparts ...
     # (I needed autotools-dev too)

     # set up build env
     cowbuilder --create
     cowbuilder --update

     # get current debian package
     apt-get source masqmail

     # get new upstream release
     # create the new package
     # (don't forget to rename upstream to *.orig.tar.gz)

     # build the package
     export PDEBUILD_PBUILDER=cowbuilder
     pdebuild

     # check it
     lintian -Ivi /var/cache/pbuilder/result/*.changes
     piuparts /var/cache/pbuilder/result/*.changes

     # sign it
     debsign ...



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>