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Re: apt question (downgrading and installing from source)



Chris Kenrick wrote:

In order to get a few packages to the versions I wanted them at, I ended
up using packages from unstable.  Unfortunately, I ended up getting
libc6 and a few other important ones.  Now I'm seeing various errors
sporadically that I suspect are related to this upgrade.

First question, what's the easiest way of working out what to revert
back to?  Ideally I need to be able to work out which packages installed
on my system don't match the ones in my sources list.  Once I do that,
I'll get rid of the packages that require libc6 and so on, and manually
downgrade.

Second question, one I've got back to a stable system, I'm wanting to
install some of the unstable packages by downloading unstable source and
then compiling it into a custom package.  What's the best way to do
this, for example, for vorbis-tools?

- Chris
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For your fist problem there seems to be something on

http://www.debianplanet.org

look here...

http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=880

How to build debian packages for your own
system is described here...

http://www.kclee.com/clemens/unix/HowToCreateYourOwnDebianPackage.html


Sven



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