- Create an empty directory and cd into it. The canonical build area lives in /mit/debathena/packages/.
- Run gen-packages to create the table of normal Debian packages.
- Run dasource to create subdirs and source packages for each normal Debian package.
- Create checkouts of the meta and third directories:
svn co svn+ssh://svn.mit.edu/athena/trunk/debathena/meta svn co svn+ssh://svn.mit.edu/athena/trunk/debathena/third chmod 777 meta/*
A couple of subdirectories of debathena/meta are normal Debian packages, so this will create redundant copies of those. Ignore them; they won't be used.