On 2008-07-15 10:08 +0200, Daniel Endres wrote: > Hello mailinglist, > > i've tried to instal the emdebian-tools package. The problem is, that > I'm using etch and the emdebian-package is only availble for testing and > unstable. > > Of coures I could install testing/unstable. But I don't want to install > one of these for production purposes. > > Isn't there any possibility to get the emdebian-tools running under etch ?
It is probably possible, but not trivial, by backporting newer versions of apt, dpkg and assocaited stuff. I have got current versions of dpkg, apt, dpkg-corss, apt-cross, libapt-pkg-perl backported (which is enough to use apt-cross under etch). I only got this working on amd64 so far: the apt backport failed to build on i386. For all the emdebian tools there are probably some more tools that need backporting, but I don't expect there are any showstoppers, so it can be done and would be very useful work. If we got it done to a reasonable standard we could upload those packages to a backports repository (mine are currently only internally acessible). Wookey -- Principal hats: Balloonz - Toby Churchill - Aleph One - Debian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
