Re: Welcome to the "LIRC-list" mailing list

On 04/05/2019 17:32, Bryan Hunter wrote:
> Hello
> 
> If someone would explain this to me I would very much appreciate it. 
> When trying to download the lirc source using the below command, all
> that appears in the "source" directory is a file named "format"
> indicating that the source is maintained with "3.0 (quilt)".  How does
> one actually download the source files?  In particularly I wanted to get
> various versions of the default plugin.
> 
> apt-get source lirc
> 
> Thank you,
> Bryan Hunter
> 
> 


That is not the complete message returned by the command you ran. It
should also have given you instructions on how to actually obtain the
source of the package on your OS.

On my laptop, which runs Ubuntu 16.04, it returns the following:

$ apt-get source lirc
Reading package lists... Done
NOTICE: 'lirc' packaging is maintained in the 'Bzr' version control
system at:
lp:~mythbuntu-dev/lirc/ubuntu
Please use:
bzr branch lp:~mythbuntu-dev/lirc/ubuntu
to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
(... rest omitted ...)

So if I then run

$ bzr branch lp:~mythbuntu-dev/lirc/ubuntu

it installs the source thusly:

$ ls lirc-0.9.0/
acinclude.m4  config.h.in   data2setup.sh  ltmain.sh    setup.data
aclocal.m4    config.sub    debian         Makefile.am  setup-driver.sh
ANNOUNCE      configure     depcomp        Makefile.in  setup.sh
AUTHORS       configure.ac  doc            missing      TODO
ChangeLog     contrib       drivers        NEWS         tools
compile       COPYING       INSTALL        README
config.guess  daemons       install-sh     remotes

Don't run my command sequence above (since yours said to use quilt
rather than bzr), but follow the instructions given by your system.