These are my notes on working with Debian systems and related tools.
~G
searches the tag field. Like, aptitude search ~Gwork-with::video
.
~i
searches installed packages.
To downgrade a package in unstable, add a sources.list entry for testing, then
do aptitude update
and aptitude install package/testing
.
To list the contents of a package, use ar tv <package file>
. Or, use debc
in
the package source tree.
Use debi
to test installing the package.
To list all the packages with a particular maintainer, you can do
grep-available -sMaintainer,Package john@wjsullivan.net
.
To list all of the packages that depend on python, try:
grep-available -F Depends python -s Package,Depends
or
apt-cache rdepends python
http://wiki.debian.org/Python/Packaging
Install git-buildpackage and git-doc.
http://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit
Generate the debian/changelog file:
git-dch —release —meta —full —git-author
Commit the changelog and build the package:
git commit -a -m "debian/changelog for release"
git-buildpackage —git-tag
git-pbuilder update
Use dput
and mini-dinstall
.
Edit /etc/hostname
and then run /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start
.
I had to get into this to get my thinkpad keys working.
lsinput
shows input devices.
input-event
monitors input devices.
http://www.debian.org/devel/: The Developer's Corner.
http://db.debian.org/: Queries about developers and machines.
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/: The Work Needing and Prospective Packages list. What's orphaned, what needs new maintainers, what's being packaged and what would be nice to have packaged.
http://qa.debian.org/: The Debian Quality Assurance headquarters. Help is appreciated!
http://bugs.debian.org/: The bug tracking system (BTS).
http://www.debian.org/security/: Security related info. Please read their FAQ, as it will save you (and others) a lot of headaches.
http://packages.debian.org/: Information about packages in the Debian archive.
http://buildd.debian.org/: Build status of Debian packages.
http://lists.debian.org/: Mailing list subscription and archives.
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php: Provides you with an overview of all your packages.
http://lintian.debian.org/: Automated lintian tests on all packages in the Debian Archive.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/: Debian Library Packaging guide.
http://packages.qa.debian.org/: The Package Tracking System.
http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html: A small Guide "Writing Debian package descriptions".
https://buildd.debian.org/~luk/status/: Watch your package status.
http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html: Frequently asked questions about why a package is rejected from the NEW queue.
http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001: The vote on the GFDL
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages
rc-alert downloads the list of release-critical bugs, and outputs a list of installed packages with rc bugs.
dpkg -L devscripts |
grep bin/ | shuf -n10 is a fun way to learn about other devscripts. |
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie;
and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head
into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently
married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand
Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all
fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran
out at the heels of their boots.
-- Samuel Foote
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