On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 2:35 PM Jeremy Stanley wrote: > As I understand it, the context here is bootstrapping a new "edge > networking" focused Debian derivative with a number of third-party > patches to existing source packages:
Thanks for pointing this out, asked them to contribute back to Debian. > http://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2021-September/012058.html Hmm, this site has a confusing way of not supporting https. > In this particular case, because it's not a full-blown port to a new > processor architecture or anything, it seems like it shouldn't all > need to be bootstrapped entirely from scratch. Ideally, many of the > build dependencies could be satisfied initially from unadulterated > packages already available in Debian, and then replaced with custom > patched versions once any problem dependency cycles have been > broken. As others have pointed out, this seems like the exact use-case for build profiles. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
