Re: Maintaining personal backports
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 06:14:18AM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:07:11AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Mon,20.Jul.09, 20:55:30, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > >
> > > 1. I download the Sources file from the mirror. It might become stale,
> > > so I'd have to remove it periodically.
> >
> > Use 'apt-get source package' instead?
>
> Agreed. I wanted to avoid adding it to the sorces.list, but adding it
> allows me to do apt-get -t unstable source <package>. Thanks.
Why avoid it? You just have to have specialized image. For pbuilder,
its howto contains how you do it. (I know it is not so elegant.)
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/pbuilder-doc/pbuilder-doc.html#DISTRIBUTIONSWITCH
Osamu
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