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Re: 1.8.4 on Sarge?



On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:12:46PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:16:05PM -0400, Bakki Kudva wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I would like to upgrade to 1.8.4 on Sarge. It seems like I can either...
> > 
> > 1. Build from sources under the watchful eyes of checkinstall
> > 2. Use apt-pinning and apt-get from unstable.
> 
> 3. Backport from unstable.  Highly recommended.

Small procedure hints:
- Add an unstable deb-src line to sources.list.
- Update and get the source pkg (apt-get source ruby1.8).
- Install the build-depends of ruby1.8 (apt-get build-dep ruby1.8).
- Install devscripts.
- cd ruby1.8; debuild
- Install the debs in ../ :)

Paul

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