Building Debian Packages

• Install packages necessary for building bcfg2
  apt-get build-dep bcfg2 bcfg2-server
  

or, if the available repositories do not have any version of bcfg2, try something like:

apt-get install cdbs docbook-xsl libxslt1.1 python-dev python2.4-dev sgml-base xml-core xsltproc

• Untar the sources
• If building from svn, make -C doc manual.html
• cd into the debian/ subdirectory
• Optional: if you want to have a special name for your own package, edit the first line of changelog: change eg. "(0.8.6.1-0)" to "(0.8.6.1-0myname)"
• run ./buildsys-select.sh <python version>
  This will setup the package to install python properly.
  <python version> is either:
  • 2.3 (for debian sarge),
  • 2.4 (for breezy, dapper, and nexenta <= alpha 5)
  • pycentral (for etch, feisty and edgy).

• cd ..
• run "fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us"
• enjoy your freshly built packages