On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 06:06:59AM +0200, John Smith wrote: > 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? > Bind is not in glibc. However, gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr() are libc calls, which is why libnss and nscd are related to glibc. I am not sure about the snmp packages. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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