On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 06:14:18AM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:07:11AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon,20.Jul.09, 20:55:30, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > > > > 1. I download the Sources file from the mirror. It might become stale, > > > so I'd have to remove it periodically. > > > > Use 'apt-get source package' instead? > > Agreed. I wanted to avoid adding it to the sorces.list, but adding it > allows me to do apt-get -t unstable source <package>. Thanks.
Why avoid it? You just have to have specialized image. For pbuilder, its howto contains how you do it. (I know it is not so elegant.) http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/pbuilder-doc/pbuilder-doc.html#DISTRIBUTIONSWITCH Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
