Seg, 2007-09-03 às 14:46 +0200, Sebastian Harl escreveu: > Hi Luis, > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:09:14PM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: > > how about the development of tool on we could: > > > > - add the sid repos to sources.list > > This should be done manually, it only has to be done once anyway. of course
> > > - with a simple command download every needed source package > > (dependencies) > > You would have to do some kind of recursion here to build all required build > dependencies in the correct order. This might get pretty bloated, just think > of gimp which requires an up to date version of gtk which needs an up to date > version of glib... so imagine doing that by hand ... > > > is this doable? > > Sure, it is (basically anything that can be expressed by some kind of > algorithm is doable ;-). However, I think it makes much more sense to take the > time (once!) to build a clean backport of the package in testing which can be > uploaded to backports.org, so anybody can benefit from it. this is meant for users to use not-in-backports situation, like testing newer software. This tool can also be used to backport some packages. With the possibility of forcing some versions, etc. I am developing some software and i like to test some newer (like anjuta). But, i like too much of having stable system. I know this "tool" could bring some instability, but it is known. > > Cheers, > Sebastian > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
