Support full rebuild from source like Gentoo?

John Nilsson john at milsson.nu
Fri Jan 13 15:12:04 GMT 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 21:57 -0500, Andrew Piskorski wrote:
> How could we get there?  I am not yet volunteering to do the work, but
> could someone explain please what the major steps and obstacles would
> be, how best to approach the problem, etc.?

A good start would be Conary[1], as I understand it it's what you get if
you cross, dpkg, ebuild and bazaar.

[1] http://www.rpath.com/technology/conary.html

Regards,
John




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