On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 03:09:02PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > I guess many people confuse pbuilder and sbuild here , two entirely > different pieces of software: > > pbuilder untars a tarball of a clean build system, copies the source > into the chroot, installs the build dependencies there, builds the > package, copies the generated packages out and deletes the whole chroot > I have used both and noticed this behavior.
> sbuild uses an existing chroot, copies the source there, installs the > build dependencies, builds the package, copies the generated packages > out and deinstalls the build dependencies > > The buildds use sbuild. Most individual developers I know use > pbuilder... > OK. I was under the impression they used pbuilder. But then, IANADD, so I don't *really* know. After having used both, I found pbuilder to be more convenient, especially since Manoj gave me a recipe that automates the the whole with pdebuild from within the package source, to include the signing part. > So nothing complicated here. Just don't talk about the wrong software in > the wrong context. > Got it. In order to avoid furhter confusion, I have removed any mention of buildds and sbuild and simply discuss the policy requirement that dictates that pacakges build with only build-essential + Build-Depends and why that is a good idea even for non-official packages. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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