On Thursday 06 November 2014 06.29:49 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> Nightly builds are being rebuilt for RC1, but (...) I am writing from such a
> system, since I build all packages on my own
>
> :-) )
>
> Cheers
>    Michele

I'm not very experienced, but what is necessary to build packages? I assume 
one must get the source code, but what then? Is it possible with the tools 
provided by a standard distribution, what should I understand to manage such 
a task?

I have compiled things in the past, but always by following instructions (I 
did build a few Gentoo systems some years ago...) but I can't read and 
modifiy code (at least not anything like C).

Thierry