Re: I like what Debian is trying to do.
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > There are currently problems in that dpkg-buildpackage doesn't have a
> > convenient flag to do a binary-only build, and has some shortcomings in
> > the area of building large batches of packages.
>
> Why do u use dpkg-buidpackage at all? The right way to do this is call
> debian/rules binary.
>
> > The order in which packages
> > should be built (and installed) is a non-trivial issue. It follows our
> > package dependency graph, I guess.
>
> Umm.. building the PAckages should not depend on any particular order (as
> long as u dont want to bootstrap a system). You can recompile the whole
> source tree on a installed debian system. Of course this is not 100% buld
> from scratch (cause u rely on the already build tools), but at least it is a
> uniqe environmnt for all packages. I guess bootstrapping (or even better
> building a debian system completely from itself) is much to complicated and
> wont improve the current situation much more than building the whole
> distribution on a reference system does.
Doing a multistage rebuild beginning with GCC, binutils and essential
libs, then kernel, then ....
Would be the way to go. This way we would get a reference platform
which uses the _current_ sources as reference.
Setting this up is definitely not trivial, but I think it would be
worth it.
Mike
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