Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes
+++ Ian Jackson [2013-01-16 13:50 +0000]:
> * The concrete syntax in build-depends should not use < > but rather
> reuse the architecture qualification syntax.
I have just been told of a specific reason to avoid using '< >' :
DEP-11 proposes to use '< >' for Component metadata in binary packages
http://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11
Should this profile stuff be written up as a 'DEP'?
I think I missed the creation of DEPs somewhere along the way, but I
keep seeing mentions of them. Aha: 'Debian Enhancement Proposals'. I
guess that fits the bill.
Just today we got patches to give apt (build-dep) profile support using
-o APT::Build-Profile and sbuild to use that, so the missing piece to
enable
sbuild --host <arch> --profile <profile> <package>_<version>
arrived. Which means that a bootstrap up to a buildd chroot can
consist of nothing but a series of sbuild commands.
(This doesn't quite work yet due to a a few missing bits of
multiarchness, and a few packages that don't cross successfully yet
(most notably perl).
See my update at FOSDEM, and we'll do a summary from this thread in
the not-too-distant.
Wookey
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