I am bit new to Debian.
I am going through ,how to get sources by looking at debian related howto's.
But unable to get some clues with respect to my specific question.
Any help ?


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:34 PM, raj ravi <mekavi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Even if it is for other platforms,  let me know.
>
> I need to download the sources from Debian , for example:
>
> http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.41.3.orig.tar.gz
>
> http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.41.3-1.diff.gz
> Apply the diff and should be able to compile and build the binaries.
>
> Any tool/script which can do for all the packages present in the rootfs can
> help.
> If it is ARM specific, it will be great
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:13 PM, raj ravi <mekavi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have a query related to debain rootfs for ARM platform.
>>
>> I have executed the following command and able to get entire rootfs for
>> ARM
>> #debootstrap --verbose --foreign --arch armel sid ./sid
>> http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian
>>
>> This command is able to give me entire rootfs with all the binaries
>> and libraries.
>>
>> By following the link , I can see sources present at this
>> location:(for example e2fsprogs)
>> http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/e2fsprogs/
>>
>>  I need  to build the applications from the sources rather than using
>> binaries generated and  I need to use a custom toolchain to build this
>> entire rootfs.
>>
>> Is there a tool (like buildroot) to download all packages and build
>> the entire rootfs. ?
>> Also, while building it should use my custom toolchain with the PATH
>> provided by me. ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
>

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