On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:17:58PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:27:04PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > This means you can't build the package by hand with standard unix tools > > -- at the very least you need git installed, and if other VC systems > > are to be supported, you need them too. Changes in repository formats > > will presumably result in versioned dependencies too. > > > > This is slightly worse than the case for existing patch management tools > > in that most of those can be dealt with by hand; though cdbs and to a > > lesser extent debhelper can't be quite as easily replicated I guess. > > A similar problem arises with Format: 2.0 packages as well if the user > hasn't bzip2 (unlikely) or lzma (likely) installed and tries to unpack > a source package built with them.
Perhaps 'apt-get source' et al could notice this class of situation and offer to install the necessary unpacking tools for you. It'd have to rely on sudo or similar as 'apt-get source' is typically run as non-root, but it seems like a useful enhancement even so. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]