On 3/27/06, Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been working on a Perl script to use pbuilder to do a recompilation of > the archive off and on for a few years now. There are a few packages, such > as gnat, which obviously cannot be compiled from scratch, but otherwise I've > managed to create an accompanying set of "cycle-breaker" scripts to work > around circular Build-Depends, so that bootstrapping from just the > build-essential packages should be possible. On the other hand, these break > frequently, and it would be nice if the involved packages could somehow > support doing the reduced initial builds; but I haven't come up with a > reasonable way of doing this yet.
Do you have this script publically available anywhere? I would be interested in looking into it, as I plan to do something similar. Thanks, -- Anderson Lizardo Embedded Linux Lab - 10LE Nokia Institute of Technology - INdT Manaus - Brazil