Re: Building Debian Completely From Source
Roger Leigh <roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>
> > Roger Leigh <roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net> writes:
> >> This sort of automated source building is a very good idea--it will
> >> root out a lot of build bugs, and will improve the quality of Debian.
> >
> > Thats whats autobuilders already do.
>
> Do they ensure that you can *rebuild* from source, after the initial
> autobuild? They can't ensure that woody or sarge can be built from
> the source. If you took a woody distribution disc, and tried to build
> just using the binaries and source packages on the disc, you'd find
> many packages have become unbuildable.
Thought you ment just rebuilding of packages on a day to day basis. If
you follow sid by source you won#t have much difference to the
autobuilders. Upgrading by source from stable to the next stable or
rebuilding stable from source would be nice but due to lack of
resources I think thats never been done on any larger scale. It would
be nice if the faster archs would do a build of testing from scratch
of at least the base source package (skip OO, kde, gnome, just base +
build-essential + build-depends) say once a week on a rotating
schedule, i.e. 1. week i386, 2. week ia64, 3. week alpha, ...
MfG
Goswin
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