On 9/16/07, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 16:26 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Omer Zak wrote: > > > In the following excerpt, Amir E. Aharoni pointed out a problem several > > > people have in joining some of the more successful big Free Software > > > projects (OpenOffice is especially guilty in this respect). > > > > > > The problem of setting up is not only due to the need to download and > > > install extra packages, but also due to conflicting tools and versions > > > of tools needed by different projects and the developer's own work. > > > > > Under Debian, the following three commands rebuild the package, exactly > > as originally built, for any package in the Debian main archive: > > # apt-get build-dep package > > $ apt-get source package > > $ cd package-version ; dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot > > > > So, in a way, yes, Debian did in fact solve this problem. > > Thanks for the tip. > So, the problem is solved in the special use case of rebuilding the > version which is in Debian main archive, for the purpose of making a > small change in it (such as fixing a security bug). > > How are the following use cases handled? > > 1. Several Perl modules are in CPAN but not packaged in .deb files. > They are installed using cpan rather than apt-get. > I suppose that a similar situation exists also for Python, PHP and other > scripting languages. > When such a module needs to be re-built (say, it relies not only upon > Perl scripts but also upon a DLL), how is this dealt with? > > 2. Building a bleeding-edge version, for which you want to get the > source code from SVN HEAD (or CVS HEAD). Such a version is not in > Debian main, and probably did not make it even to Debian Sid. > In the general case, to execute the new version, you also need also more > recent versions of the system libraries - yet you do not want to screw > up your development environment for other projects, which rely upon > stable versions of those system libraries.
sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl man dh-make-perl Like cpan2rpm, it isn't perfect. But you may find it useful nonetheless. -- Gaal Yahas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://gaal.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
