Building only one package from control file

2008-12-29 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, If debian/control defines many binary packages, and I only want to build one of them, is there a simpler method than modifying the control file and removing the unneeded ones? Perhaps by passing a particular argument to dpkg-buildpackage? Anil ___ g

Re: 8000 packages in the NCP2 repo: 3200 missing

2008-12-29 Thread Erast Benson
BTW, 9300 packages imported now. 3700 missing... On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 10:27 -0500, Tim Spriggs wrote: > I think we need to wait and see what happens when main is enabled for > builds before we can judge what will happen ultimately with depends. Right. This make sense to fix prior to addressing

Re: 8000 packages in the NCP2 repo: 3200 missing

2008-12-29 Thread Tim Spriggs
Erast Benson wrote: BTW, 9300 packages imported now. 3700 missing... Wahoo! The crap is comin' in with full force! Time to implement more checks I suppose. I wonder if we could utilize apt-get's ordering simulation, i.e. to verify if package A is "good" do this in a script: if apt-get ins

Re: 8000 packages in the NCP2 repo: 3200 missing

2008-12-29 Thread Tim Spriggs
Tim Spriggs wrote: Erast Benson wrote: BTW, 9300 packages imported now. 3700 missing... With the latest repository commit: # apt-cache stats Total package names : 14611 (584k) Normal packages: 9597 Pure virtual packages: 82 Single virtual packages: 1017 Mixed virtual packages: 81 Missing