On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 03:34:18PM +0100, peter green wrote: > Build-depends installation: > apt-get build-dep is fine if you are building an unmodified package > from a repo but it's of no use if you have modified the > build-dependencies to make them satisfiable. > > dpkg-checkbuilddeps doesn't tell me what architecture the packages > need to be for and i'm not sure it can (since to do so it would need > to know whether packages that are not installed are multi-arch > foreign or not). > > Does a tool exist that can be told "install the build-depends needed > to build the debianised source tree in directory x for architecture > y"? if not IMO such a tool (or a new option in an existing tool) > needs to be created.
See mk-build-deps(1) from devscripts. For example: mk-build-deps -a y -i -s sudo -r x/debian/control Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org>
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