Michal Kapalka wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Debian stable on my laptop for some time now, and I > really appreciate it, especially because updates do not break things > that work well. However, sometimes I need a package/feature that is only > in testing/unstable, and which is not (yet) in backports. The safest way > (I guess) to deal with those packages is to install them from source > using "apt-get build-dep / apt-get -b source / dpkg -i", but there are > several shortcomings of this method, which I describe below. Any > thoughts of how one can manage source packages better would be > appreciated. > > 1. Installing/building dependencies > > 2. Keeping packages up to date > > 3. Removing (build) dependencies >
Can't you just set up a local repository for the packages that you build and give them a version number that is between stable and backports? So the version numbers look like stable version number --> your custom version number --> backports version number --> testing version number --> unstable version number. That way when you upgrade to later versions, it becomes a simple apt-get task. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]