Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink
On Wednesday 07 March 2001 17:22, I. Forbes wrote:
> > Isn't there a security update for that?
>
> There is, but the update has not been released for slink, just potato,
> thats why I needed to recompile it.
Sorry, I misread your email. My brain translates "!=woody" to "==potato". ;)
> > Grepping Contents.gz suggests that libfl.a is in package "flex"...
>
> Thanks, that the clue I needed.
>
> For the record in addition to "flex", I had to install "bison" and
> "mmv", on top of what I had there already.
From bind-8.2.3/debian/control:
Build-Depends: debhelper, groff, mmv, flex, bison
> But this was only the beginning. The thing compiled but dpkg-
> buildpackage bombed out because it was trying to install things
> into directories such as "debian/bind-dev/usr/share/man" in the
> build directory hierarchy - which did not exist. Trying to add them
> manually did not seem to help, then I added a whole lot of
> directories to the lists in debian/dirs, debian/bind-dev.dirs etc. This
> also did not work. Then I copied the contents of /usr/sbin from the
> potato version of the "debhelper" package into /usr/local/sbin and
> started making progress again. (Perhaps I could have installed the
> new "debhelper" - I was not brave enough to try that).
The new debhelper has the following:
Build-Depends-Indep: perl-5.6, fileutils (>= 4.0-2.1), file (>= 3.23-1),
debconf-utils
:(
I want to build it on Potato...
> If anybody wants a copy of it, e-mail me. I think my package is a bit
> to "alpha" to put up on an ftp server (version no's etc will probably
> break on an upgrade). When you install it you still get major
> complaints about how the whole installation must be fixed up
> manually to make it work. (I have done that part dozens of times
> over now - I think I could have re-written the installation script by
> now).
I think that we need some separate projects for maintaining outdated
distributions of Debian. There's no way I'll touch slink but I have a great
need for potato to be usable with the latest stuff.
> The thing takes longer than a kernel to compile (well it felt longer)
> and it has been keeping the cpu in my old slink server rather warm
> for the last day or two..
>
> I think I must take some time off to read the "Packaging" manual, as
> I must still do proftpd and openssh ...
Urk. Good luck!
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