Hi. On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 03:00:59 +1000 Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote:
> I'm wondering if "apt-get install" could be set up to compile from > source and install that (sort of automatically), rather than install > the binary? apt-get, to my best knowledge, can not be used for this. There's tool called apt-build, which can do most of the things you describe. > And something that seems even more appealing to me is an apt-get > source resulting in a git repo, and then "upgrade" for that package > becomes just "git pull; recompile, rebuild debian package; install" - > the git pull for a Linux kernel upgrade for example, is much smaller > than downloading source and binary packages, and provides a full > source archive - having been a programmer, this seems quite appealing. You need to take build-dependencies into the account, as you can not rebuild the source without them. I'll be more like 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' for build-depends and only then "git pull; recompile, rebuild debian package; install". And even for the Debian stable build-depends' updates come annoyingly frequently these days :) I tried to use apt-build, and it kinda worked, but it wasn't pretty sight. Build-dependencies ate huge amounts of disk space, build times were painfully large (compiling stock Wheezy kernel on QNAP takes about 1.5 days, for example). So I said to myself 'screw it', took Core i7 desktop, made a couple of chroots on it and is building everything there since then. Maintaining a local repository with pre-built binary packages is much less hassle IMO. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140816212500.8b143a5fbb824128d492a...@gmail.com
