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Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing



On Thu,27.May.10, 21:47:16, Ingo Kasten wrote:
> Israel Garcia schrieb:
> >Some times ago (I could not find on google), I could create a deb file
> >for my lenny from unstable or testing debian (done remember now). I
> >remember I follow some steps from a blog or something and I
> >successfully created a new version of a deb file. Can you help me to
> >get this steps?
> >
> As far as I understand, you would like to backport an unstable
> package for your stable system.
> Unless you don't want to pin your apt-get to unstable (or testing)
> do the following (so did I many times before when I used stable):
> Go to the debian unstable package *source*  page and download
> manually the appropriate source file, the *.dsc file and the diff.gz
> file into
> an empty folder.
> In this folder you do  "dpkg-source -x *.dsc" and your build-folder

Wouldn't it be simpler to just add a deb-src line for unstable and

apt-get source package

?

Regards,
Andrei
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