yyyc514
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Posted: Sep. 02 2005,15:17 |
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Some thoughts...
It's probably easiest to avoid buildling packages for DSL from source because of the problems you mention... that being said most of the packages I build are from .debs from stable/sarge... I carefully determine the requirements, what is not included in DSL currently then extract the necessary .debs, delete uneeded files (docs, etc) and then create a DSL.
Of course I have a create a BASH script for every package I maintain to make this process automatic.
You might want to checkout http://snapshot.debian.net as well. It's not the perfect answer to this problem, but it allows you to go back in time and fetch different versions of any Debian package.
Also, dependencies like libc6 don't necessarily always have to be 100% in sync... for example I build a small program jsut the other day on my Ubuntu Hoary system, copied the executable and 3 libraries right from Ubuntu into a DSL that I packaged and it works great!
As far as upgrading the entire distro to stable/sarge... what people don't think of is as everything gets newer it also gets larger... it may in fact be impossible to fit the exact same tools into DSL at the sarge version level compared to the oldstable version level most things are at.
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