Re: Building D-I - formerly Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac

["Chris Tillman" <toff1@cox.net>]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:07:30PM +0800, debian@computerdatasafe.com.au wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:54:37AM +0800, debian@computerdatasafe.com.au wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > Recipe:
> > > > >  - install the build-dependancies on the host system
> > > > > I don't know what they are, don't know how to find out so we'll see what
> > > > > breaks....
> > > > 
> > > > The build dependencies are listed in build/debian/control.in. One easy way
> > > > to have it check for you, is to cp debian/control.in to debian/control, 
> > > > then in the bulid directory use dpkg-buildpackage -D -b. Although this is 
> > > > not a normal debian package, you will still get the unsatisfied dependencies
> > > > listed. There is also a @UDEB_DEPENDS@ entry, which the make process will
> > > > fill in and download later based on your arch and sources.list.local.
> > >  
> > > I presume I need to upgrade this system to sid?
> > 
> > No, I wouldn't upgrade the whole system if I were you. If you install the
> > packages you need, they will pull in the dependencies from unstable as 
> > needed, for example libc6 etc. But you will have a more stable system
> > if you just let it get whatever it needs out of sid.
> 
> I copied by deb line, changed stable to unstable and ran this command:
> for p in install libdiscover1-pic libdiscover1 genext2fs mklibs libdebconfclient0 libdebian-installer3; do apt-get -qqyu install $p; done

You can list as many packages as you want after install:

apt-get -qqyu install libdiscover1-pic libdiscover1 genext2fs mklibs libdebconfclient0 libdebian-installer3

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