Re: Maintaining personal backports
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:54:45AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Dear Debian users,
>
> I am sure many of us would like to use the latest version of some
> applications even while we are on Debian stable. While I am aware that
> backports do exist, I prefer making my own backports, especially for
> those packages which are not supported by the semi-official Debian
> backports service.
>
> 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.
Osamu
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