Hi! Marc Haber <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:05:47 +0900, Charles Plessy <[email protected]> > wrote: >>The tool you are looking for is "mk-build-deps" from the package "devscripts". > > So one uses mk-build-deps to create a .deb containing the build > dependencies as binary dependencites, put that .deb into an local > aptable archive, run apt-get update and apt-get install $PACKAGE.
`mk-build-deps -r -i` builds a package, dpkg -i, apt-get install -f > Am I the only one who thinks this is terribly backwards as compared to > hand-editing dpkg-checkbuildep's output to an apt-get install command > line? Well it has some advantages, like, your build-dependencies are marked auto-installed and uninstalling foo-build-deps will also mark them unused -> it's pretty simple to get rid of no-longer-needed build-dependencies. Christoph -- 9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857 70CA 9655 22B9 D49A E731 Debian Developer | Lisp Hacker | CaCert Assurer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

