Re: Building source packages

2005-07-08 Thread John Skaller
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:50 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > On 05/07/08 15:50 +1000, John Skaller said ... > > > > What I am asking for is: > > > > apt-get install fred > > > > and it installs fred. If 'fred' is not available for my architecture, > > it is compiled and installed automatica

Re: Building source packages

2005-07-08 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 05/07/08 15:50 +1000, John Skaller said ... > > What I am asking for is: > > apt-get install fred > > and it installs fred. If 'fred' is not available for my architecture, > it is compiled and installed automatically and transparently. This > occurs recursively for all dependencies, at least

Re: Building source packages

2005-07-07 Thread John Skaller
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:58 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 08-Jul-2005, John Skaller wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 21:27 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > You may as well use the http://mentors.debian.net service to > > > upload your work. It will take care of your files and make them > > > publ

Building source packages

2005-07-07 Thread Ben Finney
On 08-Jul-2005, John Skaller wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 21:27 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > You may as well use the http://mentors.debian.net service to > > upload your work. It will take care of your files and make them > > publicly available in a decent repository structure. > > but > >