Re: Backporting a package from unstable to stable
On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 19:09, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:41:13PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> >
> > To answer the question, the answer is 'no, not always'.
> >
> > You need some try-and-error, and usually backporting one package
> > requires backporting of another. However, many people do it due to
> > their needs.
> >
> > The biggest stumbling block is probably debhelper; if you could ignore
> > that, things would be pretty straightforward (in most cases).
>
> This is what I've discovered. I took the Snort (2.0.0-2) source package,
> modified the build dependencies to match the appropriate package versions
> that were in stable, and build a new source package and then ran pbuilder
> over it.
>
> It built fine, but when I installed it, all the debconf dialog boxes came
> up without any messages.
If you are going to backport packages from sid, you will most likely
need to backport debhelper, debconf, automake*, et al so that the
package will build properly (though it may *compile* correctly).
If it seems scary to use your production system to backport packages, I
found chroot a very valuable tool:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot
Jamie Strandboge (gnome 2.2 woody backport maintainer)
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