On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 08:15:40PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote:
| hi,
|
| I'd like to install the latest autoconf (2.53),
$ apt-cache policy autoconf
autoconf:
Installed: 2.53-5
Candidate: 2.53-5
Version Table:
*** 2.53-5 0
990 http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages
80 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.53-2 0
500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
autoconf is already there, just 'apt-get install' it.
| automake (1.6.3)
$ apt-cache policy automake
automake:
Installed: 1:1.4-p6-2
Candidate: 1:1.4-p6-2
Version Table:
*** 1:1.4-p6-2 0
990 http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages
80 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:1.4-p4-1.1 0
500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
You can't get that version of automake with the same magic command.
You'll have to install from source, or else bug the maintainer to
update the packages.
| and gettext (0.11.5).
$ apt-cache policy gettext
gettext:
Installed: 0.10.40-8
Candidate: 0.10.40-8
Version Table:
0.11.5-1 0
80 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
*** 0.10.40-8 0
990 http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.10.40-5 0
500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
That version of gettext is also already available.
| Installing from source doesn't seem to be the best solution: I can
| remove woody's packages by doing "dpkg -r --force-depends automake
| autoconf gettext", but as soon as I want to install a new package with
| apt-get, it tells me about the dependency problems.
That's right. You can force something once, but it doesn't make the
problem go away.
| I am not yet familiar with debian testing/unstable
Put this in /etc/apt/preferences :
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 500
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 80
and include these lines in /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free
Then run 'apt-get update'. The preferences given above prefer testing
over stable. You can adjust the scores to suit your preferences, but
I like to run testing. To install a single package from a non-default
release use the command :
apt-get install <package>/<release>
(eg apt-get install autoconf/testing)
To temporarily change the default release (for dependency resolution,
etc) use
apt-get -t <release> install <package>
Also familiarize yourself with the '-s' option to simulate (and report
on) the operation before you actually make any changes.
| so it's probably simpler to create my own packages ?
Unless the upstream source includes all the necessary infrastructure,
it wouldn't be.
| Can you tell me how to do this ?
If you have the proper deb-src lines and the above preferences file :
$ apt-get source autoconf
$ apt-get build-dep autoconf
$ apt-get install fakeroot
$ cd <package-directory>
$ fakeroot ./debian/rules binary
-D
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