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| author | dancer <dancer> | 2002-10-05 04:46:59 +0000 |
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| committer | dancer <dancer> | 2002-10-05 04:46:59 +0000 |
| commit | 2571fbfaba200166173218587334d0264a0de4a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 4dd5546bb98f0ae7dae7b03b358aa40f268fe44b /AUTHORS | |
| parent | be21896f663ebc41759701e877b82a44084d56fa (diff) | |
| download | pbuilder-2571fbfaba200166173218587334d0264a0de4a1.tar pbuilder-2571fbfaba200166173218587334d0264a0de4a1.tar.gz | |
2002-10-05 Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>
* debian/TODO: note that TODO item, support building without
root is implemented.
Running as non-root in the build process is implemented through
the fakeroot options, so that entry goes away, too.
* AUTHORS: update the little story.
* THANKS: update a bit.
* pbuilder-buildpackage (BUILD_PID): quote properly
Diffstat (limited to 'AUTHORS')
| -rw-r--r-- | AUTHORS | 25 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -12,19 +12,24 @@ History and background of pbuilder Just to note the background of this package. + +[The Time Before PBuilder] + There were dbuild, which was a shell script to build Debian packages from source. Lars Wirzenius wrote that -script, and it was good, short, and simple -There was nothing like build-depends then, and it was simple. +script, and it was good, short, and simple (probably). +There was nothing like build-depends then (I think), and it was simple. It could have been improved, I don't have the source off-hand. debbuild was probably written by James Troup. I don't know it -because I have never seen the actual code, but there are +because I have never seen the actual code, I could only find some references to it on the net, and mailing list logs. sbuild is a perl script to build Debian package from source. It parses Build-Dependency, and performs other misc checks, -and has a lot of hacks to actually get things building. +and has a lot of hacks to actually get things building, +including a table of what package to use when virtual packages are +specified (does it do that still?). It supports use of local database for packages which do not have build-dependency. It was written by Ronan Hodek, and I think it was patched and fixed and extended by @@ -32,11 +37,13 @@ several people. It is part of wanna-build, and used extensively in Debian buildd system. I think it was maintained mostly by Ryan Murray. -wanna-build was quite difficult to set up, and it was + +[Birth of PBuilder] + +wanna-build (sbuild) was quite difficult to set up, and it was never a Debian package. dbuild was something that predated Build-Depends. - Building package from source using Build-Depends information within a chroot sounded trivial; and pbuilder was born. It was initially a shell script @@ -52,5 +59,11 @@ but the amount of packages which are not buildable are steadily decreasing. (I hope) +[And the second year of its life] + +And someone wanted pbuilder to run as not root, +and User-mode-linux was getting more useful as time passed, +I've started experimenting with pbuilder-uml. + $Id$
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