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Re: testing + some unstable packages



On Son, Mär 31, 2002 at 12:38:28 -0800, Alan Su wrote:
> in order to do this, i'm manually using dpkg to install packages that
> i download from the unstable distribution.  however, for this to work,
> i need to upgrade a bunch of other packages on which these few
> packages depend.  is there a way to determine the set of packages
> which must be installed (from the unstable distribution) before i go
> about installing the packages i want?  thanks for any ideas you might
> have!

the way i usaually do, to work with mixed debian systems:

1. point 'deb' to your "stable" branch and "deb-src" to your branch
   which you want to mix (in sources.list)

2. do apt-get update

3. apt-get -b source <package>
   it will fetch, patch, compile and build a debian package for your
   environment from the deb-src branch.
   if something fails (which is very usual in unstable), patch for yourself
   (and report bugs) and try building manually with 
   dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc

if everyhting goes well, you have a binary .deb which is suited for your
environment. i usually don't mess around with binary packages for
different branches. building up from source is the way i learned to
like. the aftermath with it is, you probably have to update some other
stuff like libs if they doesn't contain a requested feature.


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