Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 03:02:29PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:53:11PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> > The nearest I have seen is fink, but I know little about it.
> > 
> > Am I missing something?
> 
> apt-src, apparently.

Well, not really.  apt-src doesn't integrate with apt/dpkg very much.
For instance, apt-src --build upgrade doesn't upgrade every package
that's out-of-date on your system vs. what's available.  Rather, it
upgrades all the sources in your apt-src build directory.  So if you
delete some to save space, you're screwed.  Plus you lose apt features
like pinning.

Moreover, it also doesn't seem to support building of depends and
build-deps, but I didn't personally verify that.

-- John