John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > For various reasons [1], I am interested in building Debian from source > -- and continuing to do so for upgrades and newly-installed packages. > > What I'm after is basically something where I can say: > > apt-foo install kde
Close enough :) apt-fu -R src-install kde > The system will then: > > 1. Look at kde and build/install any of its build-deps > 2. Build kde > 3. Build/install any Depends or Pre-Depends of kde > 4. Install kde > > (These four steps would be repeated for all dependencies that had to be > filled.) > > In other words, at no time would a .deb be downloaded. All .debs would > be built locally and installed locally. > > I'd also like to be able to say: > > apt-foo dist-upgrade apt-fu src-dist-upgrade Though it takes some configuring. > Which would essentially run the above steps and upgrade my system. > Again, no .deb would ever be downloaded; they'd be built and installed > locally. > > We seem to already have the metadata necessary to do this, but as far as > I can tell, our existing tools don't support it. For instance: > > * apt-build has an option to build a package and all packages it > depends upon, but always downloads binary .debs of -dev packages. > (Or maybe I got this backwards; I'm not sitting at my apt-build > machine right now.) apt-fu installs binary packages of build-depends first to avoid circular build-dependencies, and then builds and installs the build-depends from source if -R is specified. It's a nasty problem but you can't have the chicken without the egg, nor the egg without the chicken. > * pbuilder and sbuild don't bother with actual installation, > so they don't resolve dependencies at all. Also, they only download > .debs of build-deps. > > The nearest I have seen is fink, but I know little about it. > > Am I missing something? Is anyone working on this? deb http://www.yhbt.net/normalperson/debian ./ deb-src http://www.yhbt.net/normalperson/debian ./ apt-get install apt-fu Documentation is available here: http://www.yhbt.net/normalperson/debian/html I've been meaning to integrate apt-fu features into apt-src and send patches for a while but I still haven't found the time. Right now, apt-fu is a combination of ideas from apt-build, apt-src and sbuild. It's been released for over 2 months now, but I've hardly had any bug reports. It works fine (albeit slowly) for on both my home machines and machines at work. > > Thanks, > > John > > [1] I want to experiment with different optimizations on the Alpha... > plus this would significantly reduce the number of CD's I'd have to > carry around to have a whole Debian release with me. One binary CD for > each arch, plus a source CD set that would work for them all. Maybe you'll see more performance increases with Alpha than I got with i386 (athlon). -- Eric Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Petta Technology, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
