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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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