On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 04:22:14PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 08:16:00PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 01:59:14PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Are there instructions somewhere whereby a novice could backport a > > > package? I'm interested in backportin opam and related stuff because > > > the opam in jessie is dangerously obsolete. It is no longer > > > compatible with the opam archive format. > > > > > > > The only problem might be that most of the times backporting a package > > could imply backporting also some of its deps. For the rest, it might > > possibly be relatively straightforward. > > Of course it may imply further backports. But how do I do it? >
You basically rebuild the newer package under the release you would like to backport it. In terms of how you do repackage for Devuan, the link below: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=549 might be useful. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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