Re: Maintaining personal backports
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:33:36PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > Maybe it's easier to parse the output of 'apt-cache showsrc'.
> >
> > That would help. Thanks again, Andrei.
>
> How about adding deb-src line in chroot pointing to unstable archive?
>
> Then apt-get source "any-binary" will run in chroot to get pertinent
I am not sure how this would help, as I run apt-get source outside of
the chroot, right?
> I think adding some version using "dch" should help reduce version name
> confusion of build package. dch is in devscript.
I was also thinking about an automated dch to increase the version to
something like ${VER}~mybpo1, or some such thing. I leave it to you to
suggest some sane method my which this can be achieved.
Thanks for all the help, and I hope people find this useful.
Kumar
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