Re: equivalent of *BSD's 'make world' in debian?

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> > >     Brent> is there any way to use debian's package system to do a
> > >     Brent> from- source upgrade?
> > >
> > > Sure. Add:
> > > [...]
> > > apt-get -b source packagename
> > 
> > This works, but only one package at a time.  And the source dependencies
> > are not currently handled automatically.  I guess buildd is closer to
> > what he wants, but I don't think there's a *good* solution to this
> > problem yet.  Once we have source dependencies in use, it should be no
> > problem to rebuild the whole distribution.

It will be impossible to rebuild the whole distribution from scratch,
though.  Build dependencies will be circular in all sorts of key
places in the development core.  But once you have a working kernel,
libc6, libc6-dev, gcc, sh, bash, etc., you should be able to get
further.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg