From ef93c7d565d47e49a50d1014587a934a3d3371bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dancer Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:32:50 +0000 Subject: update docs, move parts from AUTORS file --- AUTHORS | 58 ---------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 58 deletions(-) (limited to 'AUTHORS') diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index 3df564f..66e86d4 100644 --- a/AUTHORS +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -7,63 +7,5 @@ Daniel Kobras -- Patches and bugfixes for non-interactive building, and Dagfinn Ilmari Manns?er -- devfs support. Henrique de Moraes Holschuh -- portion of pbuilder-satisfydepends (version dependency check) -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 (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, 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, -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 -several people. It is part of wanna-build, and used extensively -in Debian buildd system. I think it was maintained -mostly by Ryan Murray. - - -[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 -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) - - -[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. - $Id$ \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3