Wed Mar 3 15:33:47 PST 2010 jacob@appelbaum.net * debian docs, the too long; didn't read version New patches: [debian docs, the too long; didn't read version jacob@appelbaum.net**20100303233347] hunk ./docs/debian.txt 6 +== TL;DR package building instructions == + +If you want to build your own Debian packages from the darcs tree or from +a source release, do the following: + + apt-get install -y build-essential debhelper cdbs python-central \ + python-setuptools python python-dev python-twisted-core \ + fakeroot darcs + cd ~/ + mkdir src && cd src/ + darcs get --lazy http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk tahoe-lafs + cd tahoe-lafs + # set this for your Debian release name (lenny, sid, etc) + make deb-lenny + # You must have your dependency issues worked out by hand for this to work + sudo dpkg -i ../allmydata-tahoe_0.0.1_all.deb + Context: [docs: a few small edits to try to guide newcomers through the docs zooko@zooko.com**20100303231902 Ignore-this: a6aab44f5bf5ad97ea73e6976bc4042d These edits were suggested by my watching over Jake Appelbaum's shoulder as he completely ignored/skipped/missed install.html and also as he decided that debian.txt wouldn't help him with basic installation. Then I threw in a few docs edits that have been sitting around in my sandbox asking to be committed for months. ] [TAG allmydata-tahoe-1.6.1 david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20100228062314 Ignore-this: eb5f03ada8ea953ee7780e7fe068539 ] Patch bundle hash: af5349baecd8126035798eb71a87e28c7ef20e9f