On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:58:21PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > It started as an exercise to learn how to build debs, but, as is the way of > these things, it all became a bit of a trial. First I was doing it on a > debian/sarge machine but discovered I had build dependencies on packages in > unstable (so I have ended up building a complete debian unstable > configuration inside a chroot environment on this machine so as not to > disturb its operation). Then I had to wrestle with libxml that failed > (2.4.24 was apparently ok - but by then I had already upgraded to a later > release so it wasn't unitl 2.4.28 that it worked again), various dependancies > on automake, but needing automake1.5, and a problem I discovered today when I > started to rebuild from the rc5 tarballs (libdb2-dev is a dependency for > kdelibs - but at least another package I build must have required a > dependency on libdb3-dev because that is installed in my chroot environment. Yes, I have read all of your messages to the list, and they saved me a great deal of time, especially those about the libxml problem, and surely I wasn't the only one to benefit of them. Ciao, Paolo -- Paolo Ulivi pulivi@libero.it GPG KeyID=3D5C4F3D94 GPG Fingerprint=3D3AF7 BFA2 3DE6 6A73 5379 5E0A 0949 6A1E 5C4F 3D94 If Linux is not Unix then Windows are not Gates Anonymous, XXI Century
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