Thank you Paul and Mathew. I like this approach and will try it. I expect that the Sarge version 2.8.14 of devscripts should work ?
-bakki On 4/25/06, Paul van Tilburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:12:46PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:16:05PM -0400, Bakki Kudva wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I would like to upgrade to 1.8.4 on Sarge. It seems like I can either... > > > > > > 1. Build from sources under the watchful eyes of checkinstall > > > 2. Use apt-pinning and apt-get from unstable. > > > > 3. Backport from unstable. Highly recommended. > > Small procedure hints: > - Add an unstable deb-src line to sources.list. > - Update and get the source pkg (apt-get source ruby1.8). > - Install the build-depends of ruby1.8 (apt-get build-dep ruby1.8). > - Install devscripts. > - cd ruby1.8; debuild > - Install the debs in ../ :) > > Paul > > -- > Student @ Eindhoven | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of Technology, The Netherlands | JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG key ID: 0x50064181 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFETe6RJBBhylAGQYERAhVpAJ4xXY8nacR7HyCfi7Wo9bgaFbz8XgCeLUsN > dtvzIpPvMYpj4ScxrBFam4k= > =yyqc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >
