On Tue, 25 May 2010 23:47:40 +0200 Sam Geeraerts <sam...@elmundolibre.be> wrote:
> Dmitry Samoyloff schreef: > > Hello, > > 2. Is it necessary to download all the GBs and rebuild everything > > else in a distro to make my job done (adding a new version of a > > package to the backports repo)? > > You don't need all of it, but you would need enough of the Ubuntu > mirror to debootstrap a chroot environment + the build dependencies > of the package(s) you want to build. I don't know of an automated way > to do that. > > Alternatively, you could limit yourself to hardy main (so not include > -security/-updates/-backports and universe) in your debmirror. We > don't do 64 bit, so you can skip amd64 in any case. > > Yet another option is to just study the code and provide a patch (or > steps to take) that you think will work. :) I'd suggest building a chroot (would only be a few hundred mb), downloading the source package into it, and installing the build-deps there. copy in the builder config file(s), and make your script source them. mangle the package on its own. kk > > Thanks in advance for your answers and patience :-) > > > > [1] http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/ModifyingANewPackage -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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