On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:11:55PM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: > One thing I miss is the cvsup utility in FreeBSD, where I could update the > source and recompile > the entire source tree.
No, sadly we really don't have an equivalent in Debian. While apt-get does allow you to pull down the source code for packages, we are primarily focused on distribution of binary packages. You'll notice a lack of anything really significant in /usr/src and a complete lack of /usr/ports. We don't really have a central "source tree" for all our packages. Every so often I ponder what it would take to implement such a beast, as it is one of my favorite features of *BSD, but I haven't ever seriously considered doing it. For now you have to use "apt-get source -b foo" which will pull down the source to the 'foo' package and build it in the current directory. Future versions of apt-get (that included in woody) support source dependencies, so I can envision a time when we have some kind of "make world" functionality. But it's not there yet. A good bit of work would need to be done. The lack of a central place to put build options (/etc/make.conf in FreeBSD) limits the possible benefit of such a system. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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