Re: [Patch] (Long) apt-get patch to improve build from source commands.

[Steven Fuerst <svf@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>]

Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 May 2002, Steven Fuerst wrote:
> 
> > 'apt-get sourcetree packagename(s)'  will get and compile all the
> > build-depends of a package, and then compile the list of packages on the
> > command line.  It installs the sources in such a way so that can
> 
> I'm not terribly keen on having something like this in apt-get itself,
> can't you build it outside of APT?
> 
> Jason

It is possible to extract all of the new code and put it into a new
utility without too much trouble.  Only a few small functions would have
to be duplicated.  I'll make an update when I've done that and fixed
some rather large efficiency problems with the HasBuildDeps() function.

Steven


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