On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:07:46PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > David Weinehall wrote: > > >>It would be a neat trick, but I'm finding that the hard part for me in > >>using debs is keeping my own source code changes integrated. Also, > >>there is a lot of overhead building stuff that I just don't care about. > > >I build debs of my own source code too, to be able to keep track of > >dependencies in a sane manner. > > How do you keep track of the patches you make for them, so that you can > keep your deb up to date with the real deb?
orig-tree orig-tree+my_patches diff -urpN orig-tree orig-tree+my_patches Works pretty well for me. But usually when working on an embedded system, you have to use a relatively stable base anyway, so tracking unstable might not be a good idea. > >>In other words, it seems like a good way of making "a smaller Debian", > >>but not quite for smaller, more heavily modified embedded systems. > > >Well, this is after all debian-embedded... > > I like Debian a lot, but I like it because it's the right tool for the > job. I think some bits of it are unsuited to systems that may require > local modification - putting the entire patch in one file, for instance. > That doesn't even work for big debs (gcc, glibc), which have their > own hacky system of dealing with a series of smaller patches. Also, > consider build time, if you want to be able to recreate everything from > sources, all the time spent on packages such as gcc-docs is wasted. Yes, some packages have hacks for patch handling. This is getting remedied in more and more packages by things such as cdbs though. > I'm even getting skeptical about building from Debian sources given how > some of them behave - glibc doesn't actually give you the real sources > it's using until you issue a command in ./debian/rules. Automating that > sort of thing is no fun. There is a reason; to avoid simple mistakes like changing a file without noticing it, and getting that change into the distributed package. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/
