Re: building packages on unstable for stable

[Paul Cupis <paul@cupis.co.uk>]

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On Friday 20 September 2002 22:21, Holger Kubiak wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to build a package on my computer for several other hosts at work.
> I use unstable but on some other hosts there is stable. My problem is:
> Building packages with debhelper causes a dependency (expanded from
> shlibs:Depends) of the package libc6 at least at the version used on my
> unstable. This package cannot be installed on stable, because the
> libc6/stable is too old.
>
> Does anyone know how to build this package with other dependencies?

Install the pbuilder package, read the documentation, create a Woody chroot, 
build your packages in the chroot.

The packages built in the chroot will install on Woody/stable machines.

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk

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