Re: Question about abbreviations
Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> writes:
> Thanks for the clear explanation of ANAIS. How about PaS?
The automatic builder (buildd) isn't as clever as it could be, and
left to its own devices will start to build such "forbidden" packages
before noticing it's not supposed to. (It notices this reasonably
quickly, but still has to download the package to check; I don't
remember whether it also tries to set up its build dependencies before
catching the problem.)
To help avoid this problem, it consults a file called
packages-arch-specific that indicates which packages not to bother
attempting to build, either because their sources explicitly forbid it
or because the buildd administrators know the package won't be
buildable anyway.
HTH; HAND. ;-)
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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