On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:01:43PM -0600, David Starner wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:54:58PM -0800, Ty Norton wrote: > > I suppose my query is... wouldn't this be extremely nice ported to > > debian? > > cd ~/Program_Source (or whereever you want to store the files > apt-get source foo > cd foo-1.0-2/ > sudo debian/rules binary > cd .. > sudo dpkg -iEG foo_1.0-2.deb > > In what ways is pkgsrc superior to that? Dependency checking, and if you don't think that makes the pkgsrc format better then you've never used it. apt-get --source is a kludge and was not designed in to the system from the start. If you need some header files to build your package, apt-get --source won't tell you, and it certainly won't download the appropriate package for you. I believe that adding source dependencies to apt-get --source would take care of this problem. I don't know how feasable this is. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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