Re: APT archive

[Joel Baker <lucifer@lightbearer.com>]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:36:13PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> An APT-able (once apt is working) archive of the packages I have done so
> far can be found by using the following entry in sources.list:
> 
> deb http://debian-bsd.lightbearer.com/debian-bsd unstable main contrib non-free
> 
> I'm working on having a saner setup to put packages in, including a deb-src
> and such; I'll probably backport debarchiver to the Potato system that this
> server is running on, in the relatively near future.
> 
> However, *all* of these packages are built in the current chroot, and are
> clean builds - that means they either built the documentation and all of
> the supplements, or they didn't throw an error (build-depend *or* build
> time error) on being unable to do so.
> 
> Currently it has some of the base SGML packages and a few things that are
> useful for pulling down other packages or compile work. More will be on its
> way soon (current goal: get groff working so that many things which use it
> for docs work; this means getting X working, which means getting debconf
> working, which means... :)
> 
> Yes, I *did* just say "Getting X working". Yes, I *am* that insane... for
> now. I may not be when I see how badly it breaks, but I'm working to at
> least get all of it's dependancy packages done.

Change the "deb" to "deb-src" above, and you should get the source archive
as well, now. Debarchiver is really keen, once you get it set up right. :)
A slight snag in the ongoing builds - jade, sgml-data, and sgml-base have
a looping dependancy that prevents building them from scratch, so I have
filed a bug (since this isn't BSD-specific) and will have to wait for the
results.

On a sidenote... I'm a bit worried at the errors I'm seeing out of the
shared-lib dependancy autogenerator stuff. Is this still broken? (I don't
mind re-building all of the packages, once it's fixed, if so, but I would
sort of like to know...)
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Joel Baker                           System Administrator - lightbearer.com
lucifer@lightbearer.com              http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/