RE: bootstrapping a debian build system
| For certain reasons, I must use a RedHat system for a certain task.
| However, I need software that is more recent that RedHat provides. I
| could try and build from the upstream source packages and spend a lot
| of time checking the configuration, or I could build from debian's
| source packages. We all know that the debian way is superior. So the
| hurdle, now, is to bootstrap a build system that will allow me to
| build the debian packages from source. I found that some packages
| will mostly build almost out-of-the-box, but I seem to have circular
| dependencies between debhelper and dpkg-dev. Each needs the other for
| its build process. I don't actually need for real packages to me
| made, just the ./debian/tmp directory to be filled in so I can
| manually install the software (or make a cheesy rpm/tarball from it).
This may be what you need....
"apt-get --only-source build-dep <package>"
"apt-get --only-source -b source <package>"
HTH,
Brooks
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