Re: building pkg-gnome from scratch
On 4/30/05, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:45:56PM -0400, Luis M wrote:
> > On 4/28/05, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
> > > /usr/share/doc/gnome-pkg-tools/README.Debian.gz
> >
> > I have tried reading the source of svn-buildpackage and the .svn meta
> > data to no avail. I'd hate to switch to Ubuntu just to get gnome2.10,
> > and installing gnome2.10 from experimental is overkill.
>
> Uhm, I would say building gnome2.10 from scratch just so you can install
> the .debs is overkill. That is why Debian provides the packages in
> experimental. I guess building from scratch is possible somehow, but
> you will have to figure it out mostly yourself.
lol. Thanks. Great help.
No that i didn't know that already.
I have built gnome from scratch using the tarballs before. It's not
something I'm affraid of. I was hoping to learn how to build the whole
thing just in case the pkg-gnome group dies in a terrible accident and
somebody has to follow their great work.
Thanks for your help anyway. At least you replied.
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