Re: Spoofing package status.

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:41:15PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> > If I want to just install Exim, it is relatively easy to go to exim.org,
> > get the latest stable tarball, do a configure and make and install the
> > system.  (This doesn't just apply to Exim, it also applies to Apache,
> > PHP, bind etc.)
> 
> Another option that may work is to grab the testing or unstable
> package's source, and compile that on your stable system, to get a
> package that depends on your stable system's libraries.
> 
> Maybe try:
> # nano /etc/apt/sources.list
> (put a deb-src line for unstable in your sources.list)
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get install build-essential
> # apt-get build-dep exim
> # apt-get --compile source exim
> # ls exim*deb
> # dpkg -i <your-newly_compiled-package.deb>
> 
> I haven't tested these instructions.


I have used essentially this method successfully several times. 
Although I haven't checked recently, I believe that the version of
apt-get in potato does not support build-dep, but the woody version of
apt-get worked fine when I installed it in a potato system several
months ago.

Bob Nielsen