Docs/howto/rebuild debs

Just a little collection of useful links if you want to rebuild Debian packages and some rough comments:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/zabbix.git

http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=zabbix

See "rebuild":

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rebuilding-ubuntu-debian-linux-binary-package/

http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/howto/install/debian/zabbix-18_packages_on_debian_lenny

Decide whether where you want to get the sources from. You can either add a source repository, as suggested in the zabbix.com-wiki and use apt-get source zabbix or just download the files from the Debian website, like:

zabbix_1.8.9-1.dsc 1.8 kB a90bbc9f44f6b03c541cf75d4fdab2f8

zabbix_1.8.9.orig.tar.gz 4,110.9 kB fc8c7fad2943dea73d4f2338cd216715

zabbix_1.8.9-1.debian.tar.gz 46.0 kB f29eae638999b145cb5eb62609ff1d23

I suggest using this approach to install the build dependencies, other than guessing them and stating them explicitly:

• sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev
• sudo apt-get build-dep zabbix