* Andreas Barth [2011-08-13 13:28 +0200]: > Also, the binary packages in the debian/control template could have > Build-Depends specified which means that they should only be built if > those packages are actually installed ...
An optional "Build-Depends:" field per binary package as you described is essentially the same as the following, with the notable difference, that the below could appear as it is in the output of, i.e., apt-cache showsrc without requiring maintainers of all those packages to invent a new syntax just to enable users and developers to look up information. Build-Depends[foo-stage1]: debhelper Build-Depends[foo-stage2]: debhelper, libx11-dev Build-Depends: debhelper, libx11-dev, libgnome2-dev > Building with core Dependencies only > > If doing an build of the core functionality only, norecommends is > added to the environment DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. How do I build foo-stage1, but not foo-stage2? With a binary option like the above, it does not seem to be possible, unless dpkg-buildpackage decides based on the installed packages which packages it builds. Doing so might require using equivs if in early bootstrapping stages a part of the build dependencies is manually compiled instead of installed via dpkg, and it might waste time if dpkg-buildpackage decides to build a large binary package that is not needed yet. The most obvious ways to specify which packages should be build seem to be mybikeisred=[foo-stage1,...] added to the environment DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS or a new optional environment variable DEB_BUILD_PACKAGES which would contains a comma separated list of to be built packages and an additional make target binary-pkg-foo-stage1 in debian/rules. To prevent building packages needed for bootstrapping only by default, a new field in the source package's paragraph of the control file could be used, e.g., "NotBuiltByDefault: foo-stage1, foo-stage2". Not adding such a field to the binary package's paragraph instead has the same reason as described at the beginning of my mail. Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110815113559.ga14...@furrball.stateful.de