francis west a écrit : > 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 >
Hmmm...As specified in a post in Ubuntu Forums, backporting in Ubuntu is very simple using prevu (which uses pbuilder). Please refer to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=269238 to understand it better. Regards, Bishi. -- ubuntu-backports mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
