-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:31:24PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: > IIUC, that messages describes how to install binary packages. In fact, > the whole thread seemed to focus on that. The Debian Reference (section > 6.4.10) suggests that it's better to compile from source packages, so you > don't end up upgrading libc, for example. Is this really true?
Yes. You should be able to do this with apt, even. Just add lines for testing and/or unstable, but only the deb-src lines. Then, when you want to build a package from testing or unstable, as root... # apt-get -b build-dep <package> # apt-get -b source <package> This can get complex, and in cases where packages needed to build are in unstable, but not stable, it Just Won't Work. I would double-check http://www.backports.org/ and http://www.apt-get.org/ to make sure there isn't a source with prebuilt packages already first. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAFd9kUzgNqloQMwcRApcjAJ4ryAX81YNKYQRQ3frJqi97DPfM8ACg1oMl m9rGQ8Yvq7pGEU1jXUGjrqI= =TCaC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
