[asterisk-users] Help building dahdi for debian

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 09:46:23PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 01:10:33PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 07:51:54PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:58:40AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 09:51:24AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > To get this to work can i simply
> > > > > 
> > > > > apt-get source dahdi-linux
> > > > > 
> > > > > modify debian/patches/series
> > > > > to comment out no_firmware_download
> > > > > then
> > > > > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b
> > > > > 
> > > > > should that work ?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes
> > > 
> > > gave it a try, didn't seem to down load any thing, 
> > 
> > Could you please be more specific?
> 
> sorry, got to remember people can't read my mind
> 
> I have download the source, made the change to series files and then did
> the dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b, whilst watching the process it did not
> seem to download any files.

It merely packages (most of the) the source tarball in the dahdi-source
binary package, which is later built with dahdi-linux.

(You can technically extract the modules tarball from dahdi-source and
use m-a directly with it, but it's a bit complicated)


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