Re: Maintaining personal backports

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

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:36:50AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > If I were you and using pbuilder, I edit tar.gz file contents.  Make
> > chroot image have /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to local private
> > archive aceslinc too.  (I guess you can do the same with cowbuilder.
> 
> Oh, that is quite appropriate! Thanks for that!
> 

I have done this in my writeup. See below.

> > > dupload -t aceslinc /var/cache/pbuilder/result/$(basename "${FILE%.dsc}")_amd64.changes
> > 
> > If you get the whole thing running, it will e nice article for wiki.  
> 
> It does run for me now. I'll add your cleanups and ideas and Wikify it
> this weekend.

I went ahead and put up a rudimentary article on the Wiki.

http://wiki.debian.org/AutomateBackports

Please do correct me and suggest methods to improve it.

And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to
determine some file names using the version of the package, for which
I need to parse the sources file. I have to think of an elegant way to
do it. But, for now, even without the script in the final step in the
above Wiki, I believe backporting should become really simple for
people.

Thanks, and do edit the article to polish it if you can.

Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah