On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Hector Oron <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > 2011/8/13 raj ravi <[email protected]>: > > I am bit new to Debian. > > I am going through ,how to get sources by looking at debian related > howto's. > > But unable to get some clues with respect to my specific question. > > Any help ? > > `apt-get source <package>` will get you sources. > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:34 PM, raj ravi <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I need to download the sources from Debian , for example: > >> > >> > http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.41.3.orig.tar.gz > >> > >> > http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.41.3-1.diff.gz > >> Apply the diff and should be able to compile and build the binaries. > >> > >> Any tool/script which can do for all the packages present in the rootfs > >> can help. > >> If it is ARM specific, it will be great > > It is not ARM specific but Debian specific working on any architecture: > apt-get build-dep e2fsprogs > apt-get source -b e2fsprogs > > >>> I have a query related to debain rootfs for ARM platform. > >>> > >>> I have executed the following command and able to get entire rootfs for > >>> ARM > >>> #debootstrap --verbose --foreign --arch armel sid ./sid > >>> http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian > >>> > >>> This command is able to give me entire rootfs with all the binaries > >>> and libraries. > >>> > >>> By following the link , I can see sources present at this > >>> location:(for example e2fsprogs) > >>> http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/e2fsprogs/ > >>> > >>> I need to build the applications from the sources rather than using > >>> binaries generated and I need to use a custom toolchain to build this > >>> entire rootfs. > >>> > >>> Is there a tool (like buildroot) to download all packages and build > >>> the entire rootfs. ? > > There are several tools to build from sources, but there are > dependency loops which prevent that you can bootstrap Debian from > scratch, in other words, you can use dpkg-buildpackage, debuild, > svn-buildpackage, git-buildpackage, sbuild, etc... to compile a > package given you can fulfill its build dependencies, but you cannot > bootstrap Debian from sources due to dependency loops, work towards > this goal is very welcome. > > We have a very customized tool chain where the Debian precompiled binaries and libraries are not compatible. Assuming this as a new architecture, in general how is Debian ported to a new architecture and this bootstrapping of rootfs achieved? Is crosscompiling each and every package manually a solution or there is a better way out? Thanks.
