Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Hi all
> I want to run software only from Stable (ie Etch) when I am doing
> non-debian related work. However, when I am doing debian related work
> (ex :- fixing some bugs in the BTS) I want to work in unstable (ex :-
> compile packages for sid). Is this kind of think possible?
>
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>
> Is there any other elegant solution? I have heard about chroot, pbuilder
> etc., Will they be of any help in this scenario?
>
I am happy to report that I have had successful results both with pbuilder
and pdebuild. It took some time for me to figure out the right sequence of
commands for each of them. So I wrote up a short "HOWTO" giving the exact
commands used from start to finish. They can be found at
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2007/04/recipe-for-building-texmacs-packages.html
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2007/04/recipe-for-building-texmacs-package.html
They might not be useful if you are already familiar with pbuilder,
pdebuild. But I am thinking they might be useful for someone browsing the
archives.
hth
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
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