Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Martin Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-29 11:39]: >> I'm sure of only one thing, as long as my system does not allow me to: >> >> # apt-get build-deps myprogram >> # apt-get source -b myprogram >> >> I'm locked into the FTBFS madness and I'm slave of whoever produced the >> binary package. > > What is FTBFS?
Fails To Build From Source, it's a debian-ish term. > Anyway, what I am trying to say in the blog post is that, technically, > I don't see I don't see how we can write a build system right now, > given the many problems with current patching and packaging and, > to corral the various binary producers, I see a unified build system > as an _obstacle_. I'm happy to define the per-package metadata as > much as possible to allow build systems to be built atop the packaging > system. I agree, there's absolutely no need to tie the build and packaging together, the radically different ways pkgbuild, ON/SFW, and others do this demonstrates (at least to me), that these can work well (for various opinions thereof) without any real integration with the packaging machinery. -- Rich _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
