Robert James Kaes <rjkaes@flarenet.com> [2002-11-06 11:57:11 -0500]: > Hopefully this will be a quick question: is it possible to build a woody > debian package on a "testing" machine? My server is at woody, but I don't > really want to build packages on a production machine. Because of the words used I wanted to clarify. You can build a stable package on a testing machine. But you probably won't be able to install the package built on the testing machine back on a stable machine. The new package built on testing will depend upon newer libraries and the dependencies will probably not be met on your stable system. I say probably and hedge because if the item were only a shell script then there would be no problem. But if it is a C program then it depends upon the install shared libraries and it would not be able to install unless the newer shared library were also installed. But you can also install a stable package directly on testing. The dependencies work the right way when moving in that direction. Which leads me to believe you are trying to do the other way which will lead to trouble. But to answer your question, I have had good luck rebuilding packages using this technique. mkdir -p src/debian cd src/debian apt-get install fakeroot apt-get build-dep packagename fakeroot apt-get -b source packagename That retrieves the source and rebuilds it on the local machine using the libraries installed on the local machine which then become the dependencies for it. Bob
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