Re: pbuilder - a personal builder for debian packages
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Norbert Veber wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:40:53PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > I have been playing with the idea of pbuilder, and been writing this piece.
> > > It looks strikingly similar to some other programs ...
> >
> > Sounds like you reinvented sbuilder.
>
> Is there something that could be used to upgrade a system using source
> instead of precompiled .deb files?
>
> Ie. it would get the source build, install, and then remove the build deps
> that were not already installed on the system..
sbuild does just that (except the "install" part).
It gets the source, installs build-depends, builds, and removes build deps
that weren't installed yet.
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