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dpkg.explore

BB DPKG

Materials and links

• Training material dpkg: https://bbgithub.dev.bloomberg.com/pages/training-materials/dpkg/
• Also ELRN video series
• Devx dpkg portal: https://dpkg.dx.bloomberg.com/

Public Debian world

Debian guide for maintainers Bloomberg dpkg portal Daniel Persson tutorial video

Setup

• Install dpkg-dev devscripts
• Install debmake and debmake-doc for public dpkg guide
• Install quilt
• Install debaid shellkit
• Install ~/.taskrc/dpkg.taskrc
• Install sbuild as described in $3.6 of the "Debian guide for maintainers"

Plan

• dbash Let's make an update to bash that applies a trivial patch, in anticipation of adding debug hooks

Commands

• Get source:

  apt-get source [packagename] # Extract source into ./
  

  This depends on having enabled/uncommented the deb-src rows in /etc/apt/sources.list, and possibly doing an apt-get update to sync cache first.

Notes

• /var/log/dpkg.log shows dpkg activity
• /etc/dpkg/ << machine config
• The reprepro package is used to set up your own package repo
• Shellkit has debaid to help with dpkg tasks