On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:54:45AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I am sure many of us would like to use the latest version of some > applications even while we are on Debian stable. While I am aware that > backports do exist, I prefer making my own backports, especially for > those packages which are not supported by the semi-official Debian > backports service. > > I was wondering if some of you had a workflow with a level of > automation to achieve this task. Currently, my workflow is: update > stable pbuilder chroot -> Download source from unstable -> pdebuild -> > dpkg -i the debs. I was thinking that should script these actions and > get the file dumped to a personal repository which is present in my > sources.list, but I was hoping someone already had a better solution.
If you are looking for small private archive: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_small_public_package_archive Also debi command in devscript may reduce dpkg -i. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
