2009/7/19 Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 07:46:59PM +0800, sha liu wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > What I want to do is: > > If I want to build a package(for example dpkg) from source, how > > should I recursively get all the dependent *source* packages of it? > > This means not only the direct dependency of the package but also the > > dependent of the dependent...I know "apt-get build-dep" will only > > *install* the dependent *binary* packages. > > Do you really mean "ALL". You should start with build-essential > packages if you mean to say all build-dep packages. But I do not know > why you do this. You are doing cross compile. I do not see point of > downloading source for all build-dep.
I just to build the dpkg. So I think getting all source packages of build-dep is the first step. Then I'll build and install the build-dep and finally build dpkg. Is this the way to go? > > > I guess this is best answered by reading CLFS itself. I am no expert. > > > I want to do this because I need to build dpkg on a CLFS system > > (think it as a minimal linux system without debianization), and it's > > crazy to download all dependent source packages of dpkg, right? > > Not really if you need dpkg as you say for your system. After all you > asked to have "Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch" (a.k.a CLFS). > Yeah, I just realize that. Thanks for your re-confirmation :-) > > If you are building installation image only, you may not need dpkg. Why not? I thought installation image should prepare all essential packages which definitely includes dpkg if it's a Debian image, right? > > > Anyway, please google and ead things like: > > http://cross-lfs.org/view/clfs-embedded/x86/index.html > > Osamu -- Best, Sha Liu
