Re: Could a Lenny upgrade break GnuCash 2.2.6-2?
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 22:00 -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
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> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
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> > Yes, indeed it breaks. We learned that the hard way. We repackaged it
> > using the newer source. I do not know how we submit such repacking for
> > backports but here are the steps we took to make it happen (edited to
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> > Other steps MUST not be done by root so we need another user console to do the following steps.
> > We will need the 2.2.6 source deb to have all the various settings and options used by debian.
> > These will be in the debian directory and is really all we need from the source deb. We will store this in gnucash-2.2.6
> > We will also need the 2.2.9 source tarball. We will store this in gnucash which will become the deb build directory
> > mkdir /download/gnucash
> > mkdir /download/gnucash-2.2.6
> > cd /download/gnucash-2.2.6
> > apt-get -t lenny-backports source gnucash gnucash-common
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> You imply that since the foregoing steps must not be done as root, they
> must be done as my user. It is impossible however to make those two
> directories other than as root.
That is correct - a mistake in my documentation
> Also, I don't see how I can run the
> last line above other than as root.
I believe it does work but you will need write rights to the directory.
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> You specify amd64; whereas I am using intel in all three of our computers.
Yes - certainly adapt it to your environment. Thanks for the feedback -
John
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