Re: potato late, goals for woody (IMHO)
Didn't someone once submit a script that would
'automagicly' download the current sources (using
apt), unpack them, build a .deb, and then install
them? Come to think of it this sounds like Free BSD's
'ports'.
--- Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 09:09:37AM -0700, Kenneth
> Scharf <scharkalvin@yahoo.com> was heard to say:
> > I think debian should try to release more often
> with
> > smaller goals. What I sometimes do is to upgrade
> > packages that I use from source if I really need
> the
> > latest and a .deb does not exist. True I can grab
> a
> > package from unstable, but many times unstable is
> > already using a newer libc or something and I
> DON'T
> > WANT to upgrade to the latest libs and risk
> breaking
> > everything else. We need a side directory with
> > "unstable" versions of newer packages for the
> current
> > "stable" release.
>
> One way around this is to point your binary apt
> line at stable, but your
> source apt line at unstable, so stuff you build from
> source is up-to-date.
> (things like changes in policy might cause
> difficulty here, though)
>
> Daniel
>
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