Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:57:28AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > Granted, this would require the modification of debian/rules files to > > be sensitive to the environment variables, but I was still hopeful > > that if we can formulate a standard to adhere to, we could propose > > this to some pac

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:18:11 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > Using reprepro makes it easy to upload the new packages to an > > "experimental" dist for testing, then call "reprepro -b /path/to/repos > > copysrc experimental lenny-backpo

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:18:11 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > Using reprepro makes it easy to upload the new packages to an > > "experimental" dist for testing, then call "reprepro -b /path/to/repos > > copysrc experimental lenny-backpo

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:09:52PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,22.Jul.09, 09:18:11, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > [rebuilding packages with different flags/options] > > You might be interested in this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/05/msg00044.html > > The thread (is quite

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,22.Jul.09, 09:18:11, Kumar Appaiah wrote: [rebuilding packages with different flags/options] You might be interested in this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/05/msg00044.html The thread (is quite big) starts here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00732.html Reg

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:02:09AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:33:36PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > > > > > determine some file names using the version of the package, for which > > > > > I need

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:02:02AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > I was also thinking about an automated dch to increase the version to > > something like ${VER}~mybpo1, or some such thing. I leave it to you to > > suggest some sane method my which this can be achieved. > > > using ~ decreases the

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > Using reprepro makes it easy to upload the new packages to an "experimental" > dist for testing, then call "reprepro -b /path/to/repos copysrc experimental > lenny-backports $srcname". I had to learn this the hard way, because > o

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 08:02:09 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:33:36PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > > > > > determine some file names using the version of the package, for > > > > > which I need to par

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Monday 20 July 2009 19:55:30 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > If you are looking for small private archive: > > > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_small_ > > >public_package_archive > > > > > > Also

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:33:36PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > > > > determine some file names using the version of the package, for which > > > > I need to parse the sources file. I have to think of an elegant way to > > >

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:32:43AM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:14:32AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue,21.Jul.09, 20:51:24, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > > > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > > > determine some file names usin

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:14:32AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,21.Jul.09, 20:51:24, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > > determine some file names using the version of the package, for which > > I need to parse the sources f

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,21.Jul.09, 20:51:24, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > determine some file names using the version of the package, for which > I need to parse the sources file. I have to think of an elegant way to Maybe it's easier to parse the

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:36:50AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > If I were you and using pbuilder, I edit tar.gz file contents. Make > > chroot image have /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to local private > > archive aceslinc too. (I guess you can do the same with cowbuilder. > > Oh, that is qui

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:47:00PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I am looking to Wikify this, with full procedure on how to set up the > > mirror, the pbuilder/cowbuilder build environment and finally building > > packages. > > Please consider wiki.debian.org as place. That is my intention. > > B

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
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

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:55:30PM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > If you are looking for small private archive: > > > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_small_public_package_archive > > > > >

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
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 want

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
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? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks for that.

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
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

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:11:00AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > 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

Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
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 backpo