Hi Jeremy, Yes, this is about use of Debian builds in the starlingx.
Regards, Danishka On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 8:05 PM Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > On 2021-09-18 13:59:17 +0500 (+0500), Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 02:17:59PM +0530, open infra wrote: > > > How build a package A where it has a circular dependent package > > > B (where package B is depend on package A). > > > > It depends. Do you have a question about specific packages? And > > why do you need to build them? > > 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: > > > http://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2021-September/012058.html > > > https://docs.starlingx.io/specs/specs/stx-6.0/approved/starlingx_2008846_debian_build.html > > 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. > -- > Jeremy Stanley >
