jbowtie's questions

I've been manually applying patches to Wine for use on my own machine, but I want to put it in a PPA for my friends and relations.

Currently I follow this procedure:

1. Get the latest source from an upstream PPA via apt-get source
2. Use patch to apply my unofficial, unsupported patches.
3. Create a package using dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

This is fine for creating a package that will run on my local machine. However I now want to distribute this custom build to others via a PPA.

Is this procedure sufficient, or is there a more correct and/or easier to maintain procedure I should be following specifically for Wine?

I know I can edit gconf to move the [Minimize,Maximize,Close] buttons back to the right-hand side, but is there a way to do this for all users?

Ideally at install time so I don't have to explain this to every user every time I set up a new machine.

I have videos stored on one machine; I'd like to watch them on another machine. Both are running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit.

So far I've tried MediaTomb, MythTV, and python-coherence. None of the clients seem to see the servers and I definitely have connectivity between the client and server machines (so it's not a network issue).