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Re: rebuilding packages



On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:25:39 -0400
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:53:04PM +0200, John Smith wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > 	caused by various reasons (disagree with compiled in defaults, learning
> > stuff) I compiled a few packages from source from the project (apt-get source ...).
> > I found out that in some cases (notably snmpd and glibc) the rebuilding of the
> > source actually produces more .deb's than I expected: recompiling libc6 
> > got me :
> <SNIP>
> 
> Sure.  Debian binary packages all come from source packages.  In
> particular, libraries usually have at least runtime and development
> packages (and occasionally documentation packages).  In the case of
> libc6, it also has udeb (pronounced micro-deb, since u is the closest
> Roman letter to the Greek mu) packages which are part of the Debian
> installer.
> 
Roberto,

	I follow. But the client as well as the server and mibs (snmp) and
how about libnss and nscd (glibc)? What is bind doing in glibc?

Sincerely,

Jan.



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