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Idea
#2990: Lets have a second look at apt-build and push it forward !
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Written by oz123 the 4 Mar 08 at 05:40.
Category: Installation.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Apt-build is a utility similar to emerge in gentoo.
It fetches the sources of a deb and then compiles them on one's machines.
However, it's writen in perl and it's not maintained anymore.
I think if someone want more out of is old hardware or just 'best tune' his sever it might be another good way to do it !
So, bottom line, I'd live to use apt-build, but it's a little bit to old for me and needs updating and need new featurs.
Perhaps, we could rewrite in python ?
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sourcejedi wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 14:47
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I use apt-src. I think I chose it over apt-build because it was better maintained, though I'm not sure.
It's also very nice for adding patches on top of Ubuntu packages. apt-src will attempt to reapply your changes whenever the source package is updated.
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jander99 wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 00:14
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I think a better suggestion might be to have the people that control apt add this functionality into their system, to take full advantage of apt and dependency checking.
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heinz23 wrote on the 15 Jun 08 at 16:17
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Eventhough I haven't tried apt-src, yet, from it's description it seams to be something different. Apt-build is fairly close to gentoo's portage (from packages.ubuntu.com):
apt-get front-end for compiling software optimized for your architecture
See a short overview at polishlinux.org for those unfamiliar.
Either way it would make Ubuntu usefull/interesting to an even broader community of people to have this "build-and-optimize-yourself" feature in one simple command. It wouldn't have to be this package; in fact it would be even nicer to integrate it into apt-get/aptitude or have something like dpkg-buildpackage optimized...
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