On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:58 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 08-Jul-2005, John Skaller wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 21:27 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > You may as well use the http://mentors.debian.net service to > > > upload your work. It will take care of your files and make them > > > publicly available in a decent repository structure. > > > > but > > > > (a) it does not provide binary packages > > Which is by design; the website is only meant to allow prospective > developers to show their work to debian-mentors. I know, I wasn't complaining. > > (b) apt tools can't build from source > > Is there a tool which does that? > > That's what pbuilder does: > > <URL:http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/pbuilder> I don't think this is even close to what I ask for, although perhaps I misunderstand. What I am asking for is: apt-get install fred and it installs fred. If 'fred' is not available for my architecture, it is compiled and installed automatically and transparently. This occurs recursively for all dependencies, at least up to some base level. In particular, 'it should just work' if I simply remove all 'deb' lines from /etc/apt/source.list, leaving only 'deb-src'. pbuilder (a) is designed to work in a chroot and (b) only builds one package from a .dsc. Again, if I misunderstand pbuilder please tell me: perhaps it does the basic work -- what I'm asking for is automation and transparency. -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net> Download Felix: http://felix.sf.net
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