Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello all, On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 03:03:51PM +, Claudius Hubig wrote: [...] Are there any obvious other ways to solve this problem? I managed to put together a small shell script[1] that creates a dummy/meta package, but I’d really prefer something ‘official’. There is mk-build-deps in

Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Florian, Florian Ernst wrote: There is mk-build-deps in the package devscripts, and there once was sourcedeps.debian.net (now dysfunctional) which allowed to have a sources.list for Build-Depends-metapackages created using mk-build-deps. I don't know when and why the latter service was

Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 03:03:51PM +, Claudius Hubig wrote: due to a long-standing annoyance in freeciv-client-gtk[0], I wanted to rebuild this package locally and noticed that there still seems to be no way to nicely manage what # apt-get build-dep freeciv-client-gtk pulls in - it

Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Roger, Roger Leigh wrote: If you build things on a regular basis, install schroot and sbuild, and configure schroot to use snapshot chroots. This will give you the same setup used on the buildds. You can create snapshots from .tar.gz|bz2|xz (file), LVM LVs (lvm-snapshot) or Btrfs

Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-17 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear all, due to a long-standing annoyance in freeciv-client-gtk[0], I wanted to rebuild this package locally and noticed that there still seems to be no way to nicely manage what # apt-get build-dep freeciv-client-gtk pulls in - it just installs the required packages and then leaves me with