[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Building Maemo from scratch

[From: Ralph Giles]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:50:44AM -0500, Russell Geldmacher wrote:

> The trick is going to be building the packages from source. Is there
> something out there for the packages which is analogous to SRPM?

I'm not sure if this is the sense you mean SRPM, but you can do 
'apt-get source <foo-package-name>' and apt will download the 
source from the repository, apply the distribution-specific diff
and give you a source tree you can call dpkg-buildpackage on.

Debian I think uses custom scripts to compile all new source
uploads for all it's architectures, and in theory the SOURCE_DEPENDS
line can tell such a tool everything it needs to do so. You
might try something like that (or see if one of the debhelper
toolsuites already does this) and, as you say, just build all
the packages on the list.

HTH,
 -r