Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Trying to master the Builder

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 25 May 2010 23:47:40 +0200
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dmitry Samoyloff schreef:
> > Hello,

> > 2. Is it necessary to download all the GBs and rebuild everything
> > else in a distro to make my job done (adding a new version of a
> > package to the backports repo)?
> 
> You don't need all of it, but you would need enough of the Ubuntu
> mirror to debootstrap a chroot environment + the build dependencies
> of the package(s) you want to build. I don't know of an automated way
> to do that.
> 
> Alternatively, you could limit yourself to hardy main (so not include 
> -security/-updates/-backports and universe) in your debmirror. We
> don't do 64 bit, so you can skip amd64 in any case.
> 
> Yet another option is to just study the code and provide a patch (or 
> steps to take) that you think will work. :)

I'd suggest building a chroot (would only be a few hundred mb),
downloading the source package into it, and installing the build-deps
there.
copy in the builder config file(s), and make your script source them.
mangle the package on its own.
kk

> > Thanks in advance for your answers and patience :-)
> > 
> > [1] http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/ModifyingANewPackage



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