Re: apt-get trouble issues
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:55:43PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Can you backport manually? ie. with rpms you can take the src rpm
> and build it on an older release. How would that be done with a .deb
> source file?
Yes, you can, except we don't have source debs, just tarballs and
patches. I don't know how to do source-only pinning, but if someone
else posts on how to get that set up, then you'd do...
apt-get -b build-dep packagename/testing (or replace testing with unstable)
apt-get -b source packagename/testing (or replace testing with unstable)
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