Package management

[Paul Lussier]

Neil Joseph Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com> writes:

> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:40, Paul Lussier wrote:
>> > I think you forgot to apt-get build-deps or whatever that OTHER debian
>> > magic command is.
>>
>> Perhaps,  though I've never done that.
>
> Then you've missed out

Well, perhaps I should re-phrase. I've never *needed* to do that.  In
every case I've needed to back-port a package, all the requisite libs
have already been installed, just older versions (keep in mind, I
maintain a development environment, we have -dev of everything already
installed :)

 When I need to back port a package it's because we need a newer
version of *that* package and can't afford to upgrade all the
dependancies, since those dependancies are also dependancies of most
of the *other* packages we don't want/can't afford to upgrade.

In most cases, the package we're updating is a development tool like
valgrind which has a single dependancy upon libc6.

-- 
Seeya,
Paul