Re: I like what Debian is trying to do.
Hi,
>>"Mike" == Mike Neuffer <mike@i-Connect.Net> writes:
Mike> Doing a multistage rebuild beginning with GCC, binutils and
Mike> essential libs, then kernel, then ....
Mike> Would be the way to go. This way we would get a reference
Mike> platform which uses the _current_ sources as reference.
Mike> Setting this up is definitely not trivial, but I think it would
Mike> be worth it.
Mike> Mike
Well, I was playing with metaconfig today, and I tried this.
I wrote a unit generator, which takes package name, dependencies, and
a source tree top path and creates a unit that exports the package
name, depends on the dependecies, and as an action, cd's to the
source of the package, and configures, and builds and install them (I
used echo to simulate all this).
The metaconfig engine figured out the package dependency
graph, and created a shell script which would then be run to actually
build/install the packages in the correct order.
Hey, this is fun!!
Now, I can write a simple script that allows people to select
some package (maybe dselect can help here), and use a list of package
names in arbitary order to generate the script that builds,
configure, and install packages in one giant batch job.
feedback, anyone?
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>
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