Package management

[Paul Lussier]

virginsnow at vfemail.net writes:

>> From: Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net>
>> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:34:21 -0400
>> Cc: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
>
>>  $ apt-get source foo=<desired package number>
>>  $ cd foo-<version number>
>>  $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>>  $ cd .. && dpkg -i foo-<version number>
>
> I think you forgot to apt-get build-deps or whatever that OTHER debian
> magic command is.

Perhaps,  though I've never done that.

> # emerge =dev-lang/python-2.4.2
>
> and find something to do for 1/2 an hour.

Does that install the package for you, build a package you can then
use elsewhere, or both?  It is entirely possible/reasonable that I
would want to build a package to install elsewhere without actually
installing said package on the build system.  In which case, a command
which installs it for me but does not leave the package behind is
useless to me. As is a system which both installs and builds the
package.
-- 
Seeya,
Paul