On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 08:30:49PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: > * Richard W.M. Jones: > > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 09:26:53PM +0400, Nikita A Menkovich wrote: > >> On 2 March 2012 19:16, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:26:20AM +0400, Nikita A Menkovich wrote: > >> >> Hello > >> >> > >> >> I am trying to backport package from debian sid to squeeze. > >> >> > >> >> I backport some needed packages(some dependencies to qemu-kvm, libvirt, > >> >> etc) > >> > > >> > Have you tried Hilko's backported packages? > >> > > >> > http://people.debian.org/~bengen/libguestfs/ > >> > >> I think this packages will work fine, but seems there is no dsc files, > >> so I could not rebuild it on my own system. > > > > Hilko, I'm not totally familiar with how Debian repos are > > organized. > > The .dsc file, among other things, mentions what files (usually > orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz or .debian.gz) are needed for putting together > the source directory from which the Debian package is built. > > For the 1.14.x packages, no changes to the source package were needed. > Once all the build-dependencies were satisfied from backports.debian.org > and some local packages (qemu, etc.), the package could be built. > > Things were different for 1.16.x because some dependency needed for > GObject bindings was missing from libglib as shipped with squeeze.
Thanks for the explanation. Removing GObject bindings wouldn't be a great loss for squeeze, since, even upstream, nothing is using them (yet). > > Any idea on the above? > > I have recently added updated packages (1.16.x, including sources) to > the repository at <http://people.debian.org/~bengen/libguestfs/>. But since you've done this, it sounds like GObject bindings will be fine :-) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
