2009/7/20 Goswin von Brederlow
> sha liu writes:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > Is there any easy method to get all the *source* packages which are
> the
> > build dependency of one package?
> > What I want to do is building dpkg from source on a CLFS[0] system.
> So I
> > have to get all the dpkg's dependency source packages and the dependency
> of
> > dependency and so on...
> > I look into auto-apt, apt-get builddep. Both of them install the
> binary
> > packages to fulfill the dependency, not downloading the source packages.
> > It's crazy to download all dependent source packages of dpkg, right?
> Any
> > suggestion is welcomed!
> > [0][[http://trac.cross-lfs.org/]]
> > For those don't know clfs, just think a CLFS system as a minimal
> linux
> > system without debianization.
> > --
> > Best,
> > Sha Liu
>
> It is crazy. Or at least in general you can not build a source package
> without having a full build chroot with binaries already. Just the
> sources for a minimla build chroot are >800MB already and, last I
> checked, which is a few years back, include latex and X. Adding all
> the sources for the Build-Depends of those probably doubles the size
> again.
>
> Just build (c)debootstrap manually or use the static one and create a
> build chroot from debs.
Hi Goswin.
debootstrap will just install the binaries. However, what I want is
building binaries on my own. The reason I want to do this is I want to port
Debian to different arch(MIPS III and loongson 2F), considering there're
only mips and mipsel port in Debian archive now.
--
Best,
Sha Liu
>
>
> MfG
> Goswin
>
--
--
Best,
Sha Liu
