[Slackbuilds-users] Updated ftbfs list

Jeremy Hansen jebrhansen+SBo at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 01:23:15 UTC 2022


On Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 2:13 PM B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2022, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>
> >
> > Where do you go to find how Debian builds its packages? I know about the
> AUR
> > for Arch and Gentoo's gitweb.
>
> Search for the package name on https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
>
> > When I was updating handbrake to the latest version to allow building on
> > 15.0, I was hoping to find the ability to use system versions¹, but I
> > couldn't find any patches. It seems they existed with Debian, but my
> > google-fu was lacking.
>
> When you find the package in the Debian search, click on the
> version you want (the version you're packaging for SBo, if it
> exists), and on the details page there's a "Download Source Package"
> section... the debian patches are found inside the file with a name
> like "whatever_1.2.3-1.debian.tar.xz"
>
> Sometimes it's a .tar.gz, sometimes it's a .diff.gz, sometimes there's
> extra components in the version number (dfsg shows up a lot), but you
> get the idea.
>
> The HandBrake patch I based mine on is in the
> handbrake_1.5.1+ds1-1.debian.tar.xz tarball, as
>
> debian/patches/0001-Remove-embedded-downloaded-copies-of-various-librari.patch
>
> Hope this helps. I probably should write it up in more detail and
> post it somewhere more permanent than this...
>

Thanks everyone! I now have new tools in my toolbox.

Jeremy

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