by Hooray » Sun Jan 07, 2018 11:12 pm
since re-installing a distro is a ton of work (no matter if it's upgrading or down-grading), I'd definitely recommend to see first of all if the d&c script can be updated to add the missing bits - after all, that's exactly how it came to be what it is these days; i.e. by people teaming up and contributing their findings to make it work for different distros.
Apart from that, there's also the so called "superbuild" (wiki) - I am not sure though, if that's even supposed to work still, or if it's meanwhile orphaned ?
As far as I understand, this is however what was originally used on the build server.
If in doubt, I'd recommend checking the commit logs of fgmeta to see if the superbuild has recently received any attention or not.
Speaking in general however, the approach the d&c script is taking is rather invasive in my opinion - the superbuild should in theory work pretty nicely.
As a matter of fact, I used to keep my own set of makefiles to do the equivalent of the d&c script using the superbuild approach.
Doing that for different distros, and possibly different package manager systems could be really useful.
Unless of course, the superbuild can be made to work well enough.