Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 20, 2005 01:30 AM
In fact all packages are submitted to the archive as source, and they are then built by the compile farm
That isn't entirely true for Debian. A package is uploaded both as a source archive, and as a binary package.
If the package applies to other architechtures then those will be built from the source. If not the uploaded binary is sufficient.
I believe that in Ubuntu all uploads are source only - but for Debian at least one binary package is uploaded to the repository.
So when I upload a new package, for example, I build it from source on my x86 machine and all other platforms get it built by the <a href="http://buildd.debian.org/" title="debian.org">Debian autobuilders</a debian.org> - but not on x86. The package end users get is the same as the one I built and uploaded.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 20, 2005 01:30 AMIn fact all packages are submitted to the archive as source, and they are then built by the compile farm
That isn't entirely true for Debian. A package is uploaded both as a source archive, and as a binary package.
If the package applies to other architechtures then those will be built from the source. If not the uploaded binary is sufficient.
I believe that in Ubuntu all uploads are source only - but for Debian at least one binary package is uploaded to the repository.
So when I upload a new package, for example, I build it from source on my x86 machine and all other platforms get it built by the <a href="http://buildd.debian.org/" title="debian.org">Debian autobuilders</a debian.org> - but not on x86. The package end users get is the same as the one I built and uploaded.
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