On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 23:17, Chad Walstrom wrote: > "David Phillips" <david at acz.org> wrote: > > I think you're making it more complicated than it needs to be. I seem > > to remember the package building process for those being more > > automated than that. > > David. I'm a Debian developer. I know pretty well what the build > process is like. Perhaps you should try it once or twice before making > such comments. Erm, from what I saw, you did make it somewhat more complicated than it had to be. 90% of the time, I can just do `apt-get -b source <package>' and then `dpkg -i blah.deb'. build-deps and other miscellany notwithstanding.. On a semi-related topic, I'm probably going to detail some of my experiences of using Debian's apt-build program in the not-too-distant future. It's a nice program--when it works--and brings some of the advantages of Gentoo to Debian (primarily, CPU-optimized software). -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ If you saw a heat wave, / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ would you wave back? \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030524/daad4c16/attachment.pgp