Re: backports tool
Seg, 2007-09-03 às 09:05 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez escreveu:
> 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
> > - with a simple command download every needed source package
> > (dependencies)
> > - build the packages
> > - install all the packages.
> >
>
> A few caveats:
>
> - package names (especially libraries) often change between releases
> - not all current build-dependencies of the package may be in stable
> - of the resultant packages, some will conflict with each other
true ...
>
> Backporting is nearly always better left as a manual endeavour.
yes, but having this kind of tool you can limit the building
dependencies. See this tool as an simple buildd to instant build a
package.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
Reply to: