2009/7/19 Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 07:46:59PM +0800, sha liu wrote:
Hi everyone,
What I want to do is:
If I want to build a package(for example dpkg) from source, how
should I recursively get all the dependent *source* packages of it?
This means not only the direct dependency of the package but also the
dependent of the dependent...I know apt-get build-dep will only
*install* the dependent *binary* packages.
Do you really mean ALL. You should start with build-essential
packages if you mean to say all build-dep packages. But I do not know
why you do this. You are doing cross compile. I do not see point of
downloading source for all build-dep.
I just to build the dpkg. So I think getting all source packages of
build-dep is the first step. Then I'll build and install the build-dep and
finally build dpkg. Is this the way to go?
I guess this is best answered by reading CLFS itself. I am no expert.
I want to do this because I need to build dpkg on a CLFS system
(think it as a minimal linux system without debianization), and it's
crazy to download all dependent source packages of dpkg, right?
Not really if you need dpkg as you say for your system. After all you
asked to have Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch (a.k.a CLFS).
Yeah, I just realize that. Thanks for your re-confirmation :-)
If you are building installation image only, you may not need dpkg.
Why not? I thought installation image should prepare all essential packages
which definitely includes dpkg if it's a Debian image, right?
Anyway, please google and ead things like:
http://cross-lfs.org/view/clfs-embedded/x86/index.html
Osamu
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Best,
Sha Liu
