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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by seiferteric on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:52AM (#16015939)
It's really not too hard on a Debian system to build a modified package. All sources should be available if you have the src repos in your sources.list. You just download the src package, modify, rebuild and install. https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial
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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by traverseda on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:58AM (#16016002)
Return 403 for me...
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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by mschuster91 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:08PM (#16017084)
Long story short:

1. uncomment the deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list; if you do not have these, simply copy each deb line and have it begin with deb-src.

2. apt-get update

3. apt-get source <packagename>

4. cd <packagename>-<version>

5. (do modifications here)

6. dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

7. install the .deb packages in the parent directory with dpkg -i

Do note, this does not properly embed your modifications in a patch or whatever, I haven't figured out how to do this and lose my mind at the same time.

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