Package management

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:34, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Bah!
>
>  $ apt-get source foo=<desired package number>
>  $ cd foo-<version number>
>  $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>  $ cd .. && dpkg -i foo-<version number>
>
> This will compile the source for whatever version of the debian
> package foo you need against your installed library base, create a
> package for it, then install it.

Bah back at you.  That was my option 3.

> 3. Third, I'll try a backport myself.  This really depends on the package
> in question and what library requirements it will have.  I download the
> source package from a newer OS version (in your case, the next release of
> CentOS) and I try to compile it for the local system, so I can at least
> keep my repository dependencies usage consistent.

That said, my option 3 didn't have that much detail and didn't make so light 
of the potential library requirements a newer version may have, because I 
didn't want to detail the Debian/APT commands here that are useless to the 
CentOS installation at hand.
-N