Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:23 AM, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Do you happen to know where I can' find more info about this
>> process?
>
> There'll be a large chapter on this in my forthcoming book. Until
> then, I suggest you check out the stuff I wrote about pbuilder in
> the current book, or investigate pbuilder, or -- if you are not
> afraid of a more complex and more powerful approach, investigate
> schroot+sbuild in combination with LVM snapshots. I don't have
> a document handy, sorry.
>
> --
> .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o>
Looking forward to the release of your book :) What about rebuilding
packages with apt-get source / dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b? Is
this also possible (instead of building a Debian package from
scratch)?
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