Re: Building Arora deb

In <a94352370907310938o12430caay4fddcd5492ca6123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Patrick 
Wiseman wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Michael Pobega
><pobega@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On  0, Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Sven Joachim<svenjoac@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > The debuild command is part of the devscripts package; apt-file might
>>> > help you to find that out yourself in the future.
>>>
>>> Thanks.  I generally use aptitude (which has no obvious way to return
>>> that kind of information) and tend to forget about the apt-* options.

While apt-get is not the preferred package manager.  apt-cache, apt-file, 
etc. should still be in the toolbox of any Debian administrator.  (FWIW, 
apt-file isn't in the same package as apt-get.)

>> Yes it does.
>>
>> [pobega@greedo ~]$ aptitude search ~ddebuild
>> p   devscripts      - scripts to make the life of a Debian Packager
>> easier p   devscripts-el   - Emacs wrappers for the commands in
>> devscripts p   pbuilder        - personal package builder for Debian
>> packages
>
>Hence my observation that aptitude has no OBVIOUS way to do it,
>especially since I use it in interactive mode.

From interactive mode:
1. Press l.
2. Backspace over the contents of the dialog or mini-buffer.
3. Type '~ddebuild'
4. Press return.
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