Re: Finding a source package
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 06:50:42PM +0200, luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr wrote:
> also, since you are at things like that, another functionality that i
> would have liked a lot, and that i think would be useful also for being
> sure all source needed to build every package is available, is source
> dependencies, id est, a source package (or at least the Source file
> descibing the source package) would list all packages that are needed
> to actually build this package.
>
> This way, you can check for every packages, if the source for it is
> present, and then for each source package, if all necessary other
> packages are still available.
>
> This will help for people downloading individual sources to build packages and
> don't know which packages are needed for uit.
>
> Also this would help to have autocompilation of the entire distribution
> or such.
It's "Klee's dpkg advertising season" again. We already have source
dependencies, multi-tar source packages, and all sorts of nice stuff in
that development version of dpkg. But it has some bugs that make it
unusable, and AFAIK nobody is working on it.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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