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It could be just me (if so slap me with a fish).. but I was under the impression that anything that could be done was fair game for the Wiki.

But a PDF would be good to...

Thanks in either case....

A PDF would be handier for quick reference on the desktop...

By the way, I updated the .dsc extraction file--now it will only be seen for .dsc files. Instructions inside the new zip.

Sometimes you can do tricks--I wanted to backport the upstream Sid version of me-tv, and everything went easily, but the rules file had a single line after the header:

dh_./@

or something like that, it's gone now. I couldn't get it to use lzma or compile with both cores. I tried a cdbs rules file with just two includes: debhelper.mk and autotools.mk, and it worked fine, allowing me to use the lzma technique illustrated by Brooko, and using the

export MAKEFLAGS=-j2

trick before the final packaging command in the shell to use both cores to compile. I'm really liking cdbs.

Could have gone on a holiday, never mind make a cup of tea!! 3 hours to build. I guess I need to upgrade the computer. Always looking for an excuse.

The tutorial worked to a tee. When I followed the wiki, the control file is where I had problems. The changing of the maintainers, etc. and where to put some of the text. Also, I had set up my own email address, not the maintainer@.... in the Preconfiguration Step.



I'm under the impression, in order to do this, one must have a 64 bit computer. Does partimage make an ISO? Will have to do some reading on it and get my hands on it. Can one just backup the .vdi file in VB once it is setup properly?

Anyways, thanks for the easy to follow instructions. Just the start I needed. The computer does all the work, just have to give it the right commands!

Will step up a 32b SM8 in VB and give something else a go.

Thanks again,

Scott

Whether you can run a 64 bit VM depends on your chipset and if the BIOS enables the VTX extensions, at least in Virtual Box. I do think the host has to be a 64 bit OS.

If you have a multicore machine, there are some techniques that will compile packages on multiple cores--really speeds things up. They work on most, but not all packages.

There are also programs that are architecture independent, and need to be built just once on a 32-bit, or 64 bit OS. They really don't compile, so package very fast. Examples are Shutter, PiTiVi, KernelCheck, Wicd, Deluge--these are mostly Python programs.