Re: Maintaining personal backports

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:11:00AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > I was wondering if some of you had a workflow with a level of
> > automation to achieve this task. Currently, my workflow is: update
> > stable pbuilder chroot -> Download source from unstable -> pdebuild ->
> > dpkg -i the debs. I was thinking that should script these actions and
> > get the file dumped to a personal repository which is present in my
> > sources.list, but I was hoping someone already had a better solution.
> 
> If you are looking for small private archive:
>  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_small_public_package_archive
> 
> Also debi command in devscript may reduce dpkg -i.

Thanks for that. It'd be nice to automate the build process as well
though, and combine it with these tools.

Kumar