On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800 Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > >get-build-deps > > > Is this an alias for "apt-get build-dep $1"? > > No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a Debian as a standard > interface - "install the build-dependencies for the package in my current > directory". > > This may not be the best implementation/name/semantics, but there's > definitely a gap to be closed there, as 'dpkg-checkbuilddeps' provides no > easy way to feed the missing package list to apt, and 'apt-get build-deps' > can't look at the local directory. embuilddeps, part of the xapt package, can now be used for that - currently in unstable. It also does cross-dependencies, for such time as we still need those to be done via xapt and dpkg-cross. embuilddeps uses the Dpkg perl modules directly and passes the results to apt-get, optionally also passing the full list (not including packages you've already got installed) to xapt for processing via dpkg-cross. If you don't specify an architecture to embuilddeps, it will do just what you outlined. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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