Package management

[Charlie Farinella]

On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> 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

Just to be clear, my question only uses CentOS/Python as an example and is 
not the precise problem I want to solve.  I want to pick a 
distro/procedure and stick to it based on solving this kind of problem.  

Thanks for the feedback.  :-)

--charlie

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