Re: Loading source files

From: Derrick 'dman' Hudson (dman_at_dman13.dyndns.org)
Date: 03/31/04

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    Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:42:48 -0500
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    On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:57:55PM -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
     
    | I posted this yesterday, but I think it got lost in the traffic by my being
    | slow to respond to a question.
    |
    | I was wanting to look at the source to kde-core and tried to install it using
    | apt (I'm running sarge) I went to the apt documentation at debian.org for the
    | "how-to".
    | Unfortunately, it's not the results I expected - and I don't see anything in
    | the doc explaining what happened - although I could be looking in the wrong
    | place (the apt documentation under "Working with source packages).
    |
    | (1) I enter the command "apt-get source kde-core"
    | My sources.list has the line:
    | deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main
    |
    | I'm not getting the files indicated by the documentation. There is no
    | .orig.tar.gz or a .diff.gz file. I do see the following:
    |
    | meta-kde-3.1.2 (directory), meta-kde-3.1.2.tar.gz, meta-kde-3.1.2.dsc
    |
    | but these aren't mentioned in the apt documentation. Regardless, they don't
    | have the kde source in them either.

    The binary package 'kde-core' is built from the source package
    'meta-kde'. The directory you have there (meta-kde-3.1.2) has all of
    the source used to build the binary package 'kde-core'. Perhaps the
    thing you are looking for the source code of isn't actually in the
    kde-core package. (I don't know, I don't use kde nor do I know how
    its package are organized)

    -D 

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