From b779da3a6017bf00fe1dd569a1081b3d9059d75c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dancer Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 03:00:50 +0000 Subject: update documentation. --- Documentation/pbuilder-doc.xml | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/pbuilder-doc.xml b/Documentation/pbuilder-doc.xml index f04a309..149f57d 100644 --- a/Documentation/pbuilder-doc.xml +++ b/Documentation/pbuilder-doc.xml @@ -343,9 +343,10 @@ - But most of these problems are now getting solved. - Only about 10% of Debian now fails to build from source (29 Dec 2002). - + Most of the initial bugs have been resolved in the pbuilder + sweep done around 2002, but these transitional problems which + affect a large portion of Debian Archive do arise from time to + time. Regression tests have their values. A script that was used by Junichi Uekawa is now included in @@ -463,7 +464,9 @@ export DEBIAN_BUILDGCCVER=3.2 NOTE that since October 2004, pbuilder for user-mode-linux is not distributed, since user-mode-linux itself is broken in - Debian. It will hopefully be fixed before Debian etch release. + Debian. A functional user-mode-linux will hopefully be fixed + before Debian etch release, but it is not quite determined yet + if pbuilder-uml will be ready for etch. It is possible to use user-mode-linux @@ -859,9 +862,9 @@ cd /var/cache/pbuilder/result/ D scripts are run before satisfying build-dependency. - + This snippet comes from Ondrej Sury. - + @@ -1467,9 +1470,9 @@ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/pbuilder co pbuilder Birth of pbuilder - wanna-build (sbuild) was (at the time of year 2001) quite difficult to - set up, and it was never a Debian package. dbuild was something that predated - Build-Depends. + wanna-build (sbuild) was (at the time of year 2001) quite + difficult to set up, and it was never a Debian + package. dbuild was something that predated Build-Depends. Building packages from source using Build-Depends @@ -1491,23 +1494,30 @@ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/pbuilder co pbuilder And the second year of its life - Someone wanted pbuilder to not run as root, - and as User-mode-linux has become more useful as time passed, - I've started experimenting with pbuilder-uml. - pbuilder-uml has not been able to run as often as it should, - and bootstrapping user-mode-linux environment has been - pretty hard. + Someone wanted pbuilder to not run as root, and as + User-mode-linux has become more useful as time passed, I've + started experimenting with pbuilder-uml. pbuilder-uml has + not been able to run as often as it should, and + bootstrapping user-mode-linux environment has been pretty + hard. Fifth year of pbuilder pbuilder is now widely adopted as a 'almost standard' tool - for testing packages, and building packages in a pristine environment. - There are other similar tools that do similar tasks, - but they do not share the exact same goal. - To commemorate this fact, pbuilder is now co-maintained - with several people. + for testing packages, and building packages in a pristine + environment. There are other similar tools that do similar + tasks, but they do not share the exact same goal. To + commemorate this fact, pbuilder is now co-maintained with + several people. + + + sbuild is now a well-maintained Debian package within + Debian, and with pbuilder being such a slow monstor, some + people prefer the approach of sbuild. Development to use + LVM-snapshots, cowloop, or cowdancer is hoped to improve the + situation somewhat. -- cgit v1.2.3