Rebuild mpich2 Debain package

There are ​Debian package provided by Zach Lowry for MPICH2 version 1.0.3. We want to build 1.0.7 package with 1.0.3 package rules. Here is the procedures:

Extract 1.0.3 debian package rules

• Donwload 1.0.3 debian package source files

  root@r-mpi:~# wget http://www.cs.mtsu.edu/~zach/debian/current/mpich2_1.0.3-2.dsc
  root@r-mpi:~# wget http://www.cs.mtsu.edu/~zach/debian/current/mpich2_1.0.3-2.diff.gz
  root@r-mpi:~# wget http://www.cs.mtsu.edu/~zach/debian/current/mpich2_1.0.3.orig.tar.gz
  

• We will need dpkg-source command, so first check if you had installed dpkg-dev

  root@r-mpi:~# apt-get install dpkg-dev
  

• Extract 1.0.3 debian package source

  root@r-mpi:~# dpkg-source -x mpich2_1.0.3-2.dsc
  gpg: Signature made Mon 28 Nov 2005 07:49:49 PM PST using DSA key ID 1CE6894E
  gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
  dpkg-source: extracting mpich2 in mpich2-1.0.3
  dpkg-source: unpacking mpich2_1.0.3.orig.tar.gz
  dpkg-source: applying ./mpich2_1.0.3-2.diff.gz
  

Configure 1.0.7 source tar ball

• Download 1.0.7 source tar ball from office website

  root@r-mpi:~# wget http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/mpich2-1.0.7.tar.gz
  root@r-mpi:~# tar zxvf mpich2-1.0.7.tar.gz
  

• Copy debian folder from 1.0.3

  root@r-mpi:~# cd mpich2-1.0.7
  root@r-mpi:~/mpich2-1.0.7# cp -aRp ../mpich2-1.0.3/debian/ .
  

• We will need dch command, so first check if you had installed devscripts

  root@r-mpi:~/mpich2-1.0.7# apt-get install devscripts
  

• modified debian/control

  root@r-mpi:~/mpich2-1.0.7# vi debian/control
  

  debian/control

  @@ -24 +24 @@
   Architecture: any
   Section: devel
   Priority: extra
  -Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, python2.3, python2.3-xml
  +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, python, python-xml
   Conflicts: mpd
   Recommends: mpich2-doc (= ${Source-Version}), ssh
   Description: Process control for MPICH2

• update debian/changelog

  root@r-mpi:~/mpich2-1.0.7# export DEBFULLNAME="Jazz Yao-Tsung Wang"
  root@r-mpi:~/mpich2-1.0.7# export DEBEMAIL="XXX@NCHC.ORG.TW"
  root@r-mpi:~/mpich2-1.0.7# dch -i
  

  debian/changelog

  @@ -1 @@
  -mpich2 (1.0.3-3) unstable; urgency=low
  +mpich2 (1.0.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
  +
  +  * New upstream release
  +
  + -- Jazz Yao-Tsung Wang <XXX@NCHC.ORG.TW>  Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:11:50 -0700

• remove old patches

  root@r-mpi:~/mpich2-1.0.7# rm -rf debian/patches/
  

• use dpkg-checkbuilddeps to know which packages is not yet installed for building new packages.

  root@r-mpi:~/mpich2-1.0.7# dpkg-checkbuilddeps
  

• use cdbs-edit-patches to create new patches