Automated source builds...including downloading?

[flux505]

Hey folks,

I was wondering. Is there any free tool for automating
source builds that downloads the source code for
missing libraries and such? Sort of an apt-get for
sources? To the question of why, suppose one is in
an environment where one shouldn't trust outside
binaries, because they may contain code that's not
in the official source code.

Thanks.

 

[viza]

I was wondering. Is there any free tool for automating
source builds that downloads the source code for
missing libraries and such? Sort of an apt-get for
sources?

What, like apt-get source ? RTFM: man apt-get

BTW, this is the wrong place to ask this question.

 

[Walter Roberson]

I was wondering. Is there any free tool for automating
source builds that downloads the source code for
missing libraries and such? Sort of an apt-get for
sources? To the question of why, suppose one is in
an environment where one shouldn't trust outside
binaries, because they may contain code that's not
in the official source code.

And you are going to read through all of the source to ensure that
all of it is the "official source code", and that all of it is
trustable? And are you able to validate the tool to ensure that it
only gives you *official* source, that all of its source lists
point to the right place? And are you going to validate that all of
the mirrors are uncorrupted? (Yes, mirrors do get corrupted sometimes,
due to security faults.)

 

[santosh]

Hey folks,

I was wondering. Is there any free tool for automating
source builds that downloads the source code for
missing libraries and such? Sort of an apt-get for
sources? To the question of why, suppose one is in
an environment where one shouldn't trust outside
binaries, because they may contain code that's not
in the official source code.

Thanks.

This is probably not the right group. You might want to try
comp.programming or comp.misc.

PS. You might try to adapt the Gentoo Linux build system for your
purposes. It's specifically designed to download and build source code.

 

[Antoninus Twink]

What, like apt-get source ? RTFM: man apt-get

apt-get build-dep sounds more like what the OP is asking for.