I recently ported a testing package to stable. Did not have to make any changes to the package, just rebuilt it on a stable system. Here are the directions for setting up a stable build environment. Should be helpful to any who is starting off on setting up build environments.
In the example I rebuild a testing perl program on a stable system, so I can install it on a stable system with perl 5.6.1 instead of 5.8.x. Please let me know if you find any gotcha's. I really appreciate any feedback. I want to help new developers get started. --Luke 1.20. setup debian for build root build mimedefang 2.38 example * debootstrap --verbose woody /root/woody-chroot http://repository/debian cp /etc/apt/sources.list /root/mimedefang-chroot/etc/apt/ mount -t proc /proc /root/woody-chroot/proc chroot /root/woody-chroot vi /etc/apt/sources.list, to include sources for stable only and a source for deb-src stable. need a testing deb-src for mimedefang. apt-get install build-essential devscripts lintian debhelper dh-make #normal vi annoys me apt-get install vim cd /usr/src/; mkdir mimedefang; cd mimedefang; apt-get install apt-get install libmilter-dev libunix-syslog-perl clamav apt-get source mimedefang dpkg-source -x mimedefang_2.38-2.dsc cd mimedefang-2.38 dpkg-buildpackage cd .. #Now I have a deb package called mimedefang_2.38-2_i386.deb If you exit the chroot and install the package via dpkg -i mimedefang #it wiill complain about dependencies but load the dependencies into the queue. #then apt-get install mimedefang #and it will download all of the dependencies. #dependencies installed #libdigest-sha1-perl libfreetype6 libio-stringy-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-base64-perl libmime-perl libnet-perl #libssl0.9.6 libtimedate-perl m4 sendmail tcl8.3 tk8.3 xfree86-common xlibs NOTE Their are not testing repositories listed repository so this cannot install any testing packages (Only testing src reposityr). Now you have installed mimedefang on a stable system, you need to manually add in the sendmail.mc change, and include support for the virus scanners you want to use. This works, I installed it and tested it. --Luke
