| For certain reasons, I must use a RedHat system for a certain task. | However, I need software that is more recent that RedHat provides. I | could try and build from the upstream source packages and spend a lot | of time checking the configuration, or I could build from debian's | source packages. We all know that the debian way is superior. So the | hurdle, now, is to bootstrap a build system that will allow me to | build the debian packages from source. I found that some packages | will mostly build almost out-of-the-box, but I seem to have circular | dependencies between debhelper and dpkg-dev. Each needs the other for | its build process. I don't actually need for real packages to me | made, just the ./debian/tmp directory to be filled in so I can | manually install the software (or make a cheesy rpm/tarball from it).
This may be what you need.... "apt-get --only-source build-dep <package>" "apt-get --only-source -b source <package>" HTH, Brooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
