Package management
Neil Joseph Schelly
neil at jenandneil.com
Tue May 15 11:39:55 EDT 2007
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
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