Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:20:04PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> yeah - i'd like to know how to do this, too. i installed buildd (and
> wannabuild) but there appears to be some "manual" steps involved, and
> i was kind-of expecting it to be automatic and recursive.
>
> what i was expecting was that there was a simple way - e.g. grab all
> the packages of a task - and just "shove" them at buildd, and i was
> expecting it to just... go ahead and recursively grab all build
> dependencies and all source dependencies, right down to coreutils and
> build them all from the top down.
>
> a bit like openembedded.
>
> ... but there's absolutely nothing that can be found, like that: it
> seems more that buildd is designed to be a half-way house, which is
> kinda useless for this sort of task, creating entire specialised
> rebuilds (a la gentoo) for specific architectures.
>
> yes, basically, i want to rebuild an entire suite of debian packages
> for the arm cortex A8 processor (the S5PC100).
A number of packages have circular dependancies. These have to be
resolved manually by either temporarily using packages built elsewhere
or by manually building parts of a package to solve the dependancies.
You better have a good understanding of the debian packaging system and
how dpkg-buildpackage works.
It only really becomes automatic with wannabuild once you have a working
base system.
--
Len Sorensen
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