On 1 May 2001, at 15:19, Ewald Wasscher wrote:
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a default way of building packages,
> like Debian? With Debian you can cd into the upacked/patched source
> directory and do a dpkg-buildpackage -b and voila! a binary package
> appears after a while. So we could e.g. require that packages have a
> LEAF.Makefile that automatically configures and builds a package, or a
> leaf subdirectory like the "debian" subdirectory in Debian. Any comments?
With most source archives, you can cd into the unpacked source
directory and do a "make" and voila! a binary package appears after a
while :-)
What I had in mind was to do the same thing, but with patched sources
- and thus then create a package at the same time.
--
David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Unixware, Linux
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