Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file
Hi!
Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> writes:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:05:47 +0900, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
> wrote:
>>The tool you are looking for is "mk-build-deps" from the package "devscripts".
>
> So one uses mk-build-deps to create a .deb containing the build
> dependencies as binary dependencites, put that .deb into an local
> aptable archive, run apt-get update and apt-get install $PACKAGE.
`mk-build-deps -r -i` builds a package, dpkg -i, apt-get install -f
> Am I the only one who thinks this is terribly backwards as compared to
> hand-editing dpkg-checkbuildep's output to an apt-get install command
> line?
Well it has some advantages, like, your build-dependencies are marked
auto-installed and uninstalling foo-build-deps will also mark them
unused -> it's pretty simple to get rid of no-longer-needed
build-dependencies.
Christoph
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