sha liu <sandyle...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi everyone, > Is there any easy method to get all the *source* packages which are the > build dependency of one package? > What I want to do is building dpkg from source on a CLFS[0] system. So I > have to get all the dpkg's dependency source packages and the dependency of > dependency and so on... > I look into auto-apt, apt-get builddep. Both of them install the binary > packages to fulfill the dependency, not downloading the source packages. > It's crazy to download all dependent source packages of dpkg, right? Any > suggestion is welcomed! > [0][[http://trac.cross-lfs.org/]] > For those don't know clfs, just think a CLFS system as a minimal linux > system without debianization. > -- > Best, > Sha Liu
It is crazy. Or at least in general you can not build a source package without having a full build chroot with binaries already. Just the sources for a minimla build chroot are >800MB already and, last I checked, which is a few years back, include latex and X. Adding all the sources for the Build-Depends of those probably doubles the size again. Just build (c)debootstrap manually or use the static one and create a build chroot from debs. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org