On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 19:29 -0800, Jamie Morken wrote: > > Debian releases have 25,000 or so packages and don't include the > source to them
This is not completely accurate. The most frequently downloaded CD/DVD/BD don't include the source, but the debian-cd team does release some media that fulfill that need: - The "multi-architecture" DVD contains the binaries and the source for the usual installation (Gnome, KDE, XFCE and LXDE), for both i386 and amd64 platforms (as far as Lenny is concerned). see http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/jigdo-dvd/ file debian-504-i386-amd64-source-DVD-1.jigdo - Alongside DVD #1, #2, #3... you can download the CD/DVD/BD with the sources, see http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/source/ > So to recompile the package you use apt-get to connect to the internet > and download the source to one package at a time if you want the > source code. There is nothing wrong with that, if you downloaded the binaries "as packages", you can download the source "as packages". This probably involves something like: cd /tmp apt-get source $(aptitude search ~i -F '%p') aptitude build-dep ~i Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1267955928.21347.3559.ca...@solid.paris.klabs.be
