On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 14:05, Philippe De Swert wrote: > Another idea I found quite good (ideaby Wookey) was to add an emdebian/rules > instead of an debian/rules file adapted to emdebian in the standard debian > packages. This way we could add patches which break one platform but are > needed > for the other, keep the complexity down of the original rules file, etc...
I was thinking about this earlier today actually, and there are a couple of issues: 1. (fairly trivial) is it emdebian/rules or just an emdebian-build target in the standard rules file? 2. we have to change the control file too (to change packages built and build deps), so do we add an emdebian/control or debian/emdebian-control file? Otherwise we are still going to have to patch original sources 3. if you do either of these, you wont be able to build packages from standard source debs easily (because the emdebian dpkg will be looking for the emdebian files). One of the nice things about uwoody is being able to just grab standard package sources and build them. So in the short term it might just be easier to maintain a set of patches against normal debian. Changing from one to the other wouldnt be a lot of work though, and could easily be automated. I dont think these are very important though. I dont think you need to change much more than control and some configure options in rules for many packages, as it should be easy to make all the debhelpers that install documentation do nothing instead so they dont have to be commented out (not sure how many packages dont use debhelper). I am fairly inclined to just start working on it and see what happens, so I have built a machine running Erik's uwoody to build on and use as apt repository. Justin
