Hi Luis, On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:09:14PM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: > how about the development of tool on we could: > > - add the sid repos to sources.list This should be done manually, it only has to be done once anyway. > - with a simple command download every needed source package > (dependencies) You would have to do some kind of recursion here to build all required build dependencies in the correct order. This might get pretty bloated, just think of gimp which requires an up to date version of gtk which needs an up to date version of glib... > is this doable? Sure, it is (basically anything that can be expressed by some kind of algorithm is doable ;-). However, I think it makes much more sense to take the time (once!) to build a clean backport of the package in testing which can be uploaded to backports.org, so anybody can benefit from it. Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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