[Pbuilder-maint] pbuilder CVS update: pbuilder/Documentation
pbuilder-doc.xml
pbuilder CVS Commit
pbuilder-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org
Wed May 17 03:00:51 UTC 2006
User: dancer
Date: 06/05/17 03:00:51
Modified: Documentation pbuilder-doc.xml
Log:
update documentation.
Revision Changes Path
1.69 +31 -21 pbuilder/Documentation/pbuilder-doc.xml
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retrieving revision 1.68
retrieving revision 1.69
diff -u -r1.68 -r1.69
--- pbuilder-doc.xml 15 May 2006 12:49:55 -0000 1.68
+++ pbuilder-doc.xml 17 May 2006 03:00:51 -0000 1.69
@@ -343,9 +343,10 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
- But most of these problems are now getting solved.
- Only about 10% of Debian now fails to build from source (29 Dec 2002).
- <!-- TODO: update for 2004/2005 time frame? -->
+ 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.
</para>
<para>
A script that was used by Junichi Uekawa is now included in
@@ -463,7 +464,9 @@
<para>
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.
</para>
<para>
It is possible to use user-mode-linux
@@ -859,9 +862,9 @@
D scripts are run before satisfying build-dependency.
</para>
<para>
- <url link="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg00550.html">
+ <ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg00550.html">
This snippet comes from Ondrej Sury.
- </url>
+ </ulink>
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
@@ -1467,9 +1470,9 @@
<sect2 id="birth">
<title>Birth of pbuilder</title>
<para>
- 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.
</para>
<para>
Building packages from source using Build-Depends
@@ -1491,23 +1494,30 @@
<sect2 id="secondyear">
<title>And the second year of its life</title>
<para>
- 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.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="fifthyear">
<title>Fifth year of pbuilder</title>
<para>
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.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ 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.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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