Hello, as this is my first time posting I hope i have the right mailing list, I have started to backport subversion 1.4.2 from feisty to both dapper and edgy. What i have done is create chroot's of each using debootstrap (as i used to on debian) i removed all the source packages from apt and added one for feisty.
I grabbed the source using apt-get source subversion, once that was done i started work on backporting the dependants, apache2 etc, etc they all compiled fine, i admit i haven't done anything to check things like apache other than dpkg i the lib that was needed to compile subversion. to build the packages i used 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' i hope this is the right way, i have found many tools that build debs however i don't know which is the definitive? keeping going i got to the point where all the dependencies for subversion had been met, i even backported 'debhelper' (this package is problem where the problem is i guess) subversion is very odd as it doesn't let you build the package as root, so i did 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' this this command the root checking was satisfied and the package started to compile. oh yes right now i should mention that i have the same error on both edgy and dapper. some time later the build fails with the following: (yes i finally got there) START: strings-reps-test lt-strings-reps-test: invalid option: --srcdir=/usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1 /subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base PASS: lt-strings-reps-test 1: write a new rep, get a new key back CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1 /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-write-new-rep PASS: lt-strings-reps-test 2: write a new rep, then overwrite it CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1 /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-write-rep PASS: lt-strings-reps-test 3: write and overwrite a new rep; confirm with reads CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1 /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-read-rep PASS: lt-strings-reps-test 4: write, then delete, a new rep; confirm deletion CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1 /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-delete-rep PASS: lt-strings-reps-test 5: test many strings table functions together CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1 /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-test-strings PASS: lt-strings-reps-test 6: write a null string CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1 /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-test-strings PASS: lt-strings-reps-test 7: write a string, then abort during an overwrite CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1 /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-abort-string PASS: lt-strings-reps-test 8: create and copy a string CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1 /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-copy-string END: strings-reps-test make: *** [debian/stamp-build-arch] Error 1 I don't know what makes me think it but i am suspect that i will need to backport dpkg-dev to backport subversion. thanks Francis
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