Re: [rt.cpan.org #58445] overzealous usage of configure_requires considered harmful
On Sun, 2010-20-06 at 15:13 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> -=| Guy Hulbert, Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 01:52:04PM -0400 |=-
> > On Sat, 2010-19-06 at 19:30 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > > When I am in a situation like this, I the following actions in order.
> > >
> > > 1. Install the package from squeeze or sid. Most of the time this
> > > works right away and APT pinning helps not to pull the whole
> > > distribution into the stable environment.
> > > 2. Backport the package from squeeze or sid. This is seldom
> > > necessary. The most common case is modules with XS.
> >
> > Could you not (2) try install from the source package for modules with
> > XS so your step (2) would become (3).
>
> I am not sure I understand. "backporting" is building the binary
> package (.deb) from squeeze/sid source package (.dsc + .orig.tar.gz
> + .diff) in stable environment. Is this what mean with "try install
> from the source package"?
Yes. I did not realize "backporting" meant exactly that. I presumed
that there might be (at least) patches which are not backwards
compatible.
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