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| author | dancer <dancer> | 2002-08-17 16:52:54 +0000 |
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| committer | dancer <dancer> | 2002-08-17 16:52:54 +0000 |
| commit | 7d6ea6086216aaf0ff48a0fa19a9d0f2a946bbec (patch) | |
| tree | 41e4a801d66328ab22bbd1d6daab56e80bc14480 /AUTHORS | |
| parent | b780087ddb61c4c9803da124e769f0e6f790b746 (diff) | |
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added notes on authors, and background.
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@@ -6,4 +6,50 @@ Daniel Kobras -- Patches and bugfixes for non-interactive building, and some other bugs. +History and background of pbuilder +================================== + +Just to note the background of this package. + +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. +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 +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. +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 +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 +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 +with only a few lines, which called debootstrap +and chroot and dpkg-buildpackage in the same run, +but soon, it was decided that's too slow. + +Yes, and it took almost an year to get things somewhat +right, and in the middle of the process, Debian 3.0 +was released. Yay. +Debian 3.0 wasn't completely buildable with pbuilder, +but the amount of packages which are not buildable +are steadily decreasing. (I hope) + + + $Id$
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