On Sun, 11 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > > You might want to unpack a source package for other reasons than > > to build it -- e.g., I've sometimes searched for documentation. A > > non-programmer might want to do this so that they can typeset the > > documentation in LaTeX, instead of printing out the LaTeX2HTML'd > > version. > > The srcpostinst thing was just a trial baloon - I don't think it > went over very well. So I'll drop that idea. But if we go with > a source package file format that is the same basic thing as > what a .deb file is, we can always add it later (if needed).
> I think it's better to unpack the upstream sources in the > debian/rules makefile anyways (using any tool available on the > system). I'd oppose having a specialized script file for > unpacking them, since it's unnecessary -- you can already do > that from the debian/rules makefile. This would be better - someone can overlook the debian/rules file first. > As I said before, I'm quite interested in having a source package > that automatically unpacks the upstream sources and patches itself > for the purposes of debugging -- and also can be set to automatically > build too. This is the equivalent of a "make world". But nobody's This would be difficult. I always thought that make world was simpler than this, though - what does is do exactly? (I haven't used any of the *BSD distributions). > saying that the system administrator can't have the option of > just "installing" the source, without running any scripts. This > should probably be the default behaviour. Maybe we should limit our support to only certain formats instead of needing scripts to unpack it - the dpkg end of this could get messy with pipes or temp. files. I propose we support zip and the various tar formats only. > Before I was advocating the use of a separate "sdpkg" program to > install source packages, but it could probably be done with > just "dpkg". > > ie. > > dpkg -i jdk_1.0.2-7.sdeb > > Since the extension is .sdeb, dpkg would know that it was a source > package, and just put it in the appropriate place. Maybe > /var/lib/dpkg/source/jdk_1.0.2-7 possibly? Since the package > has dependencies (to .upsdeb's for upstream source, and .deb's for > binaries needed to build it), those would also need to be installed too. This should probably be /usr/src/debian. Then we could have a nice set of Makefiles installed to let us do a "make world" style system. (If I understand "make world" properly). -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
