Automated bootstrap of repositories
To truly rebuild repositories from scratch, or to bootstrap new ports, it would be desirable to have a mechanism to break build-dependencies loops and rebuild a full Debian archive.
Proposal: use new "Stages:" and "Build-
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Alexander Sack
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Loïc Minier
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Loïc Minier
- Definition:
- Review
- Series goal:
- Accepted for maverick
- Implementation:
- Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Status:
Needs work-items putting into milestone targets.
Work items:
change sbuild to pass a DEB_STAGE to package builds: TODO
change sbuild to install Build-Depends-
implement stages in a sample set of source packages: TODO
change wanna-build to schedule the various stages of a package: TODO
draft a Debian Policy patch: TODO