Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

[Shot - Piotr Szotkowski]

Hello.

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> Shot - Piotr Szotkowski Wrote: 

>> So far, I've backported for myself the following without a problem:
>> Dosage 1.5.5, Firefox 1.5, Gtodo 0.14+CVS, lighttpd 1.4.8, mc 4.6.1,
>> PHPPgAdmin 3.5.6, Quod Libet 0.15, Rails 0.14.3, Unison 2.13.16 and
>> X-Moto 0.1.8.

> What do you mean about 'backported to yourself'?

For myself. I mean I took the Dapper or Debian sid source packages,
extracted them, patched with the diffs, satisfied the build-deps and
rebuilt with `fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage`.

> Did you package this and you run a repositorie
> server from you local machine?

No, I didn't get to this point yet.
I simply `dpkg -i` the resulting .debs.

> Could you show me the way to do something like this. I can't install
> firefox 1.5 and mysql5 without compiling it direct for instance

Backporting Firefox 1.5 is risky (see the threads on ubuntu-devel
and ubuntu-backports), as it breaks most (all?) packages built agains
firefox-dev. I'm not sure about MySQL 5.

As for backporting, if the debs in question aren't directly installable
(a lot can be simply installed from Dapper/Debian sid after satisfying
the dependencies by Breezy packages) my general procedure is to:

1. download the source orig.tar.gz and diff.gz
2. unpack the original source and patch it
3. `chmod +x debian/rules`
4. update the changelog (adding ~0shot1 as the rebuilt's version, etc.)
5. `fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage` (satisfying the build-deps if needed)
6. wait for the build to complete

After this, the new .debs are ready. :o)

Cheers,
-- Shot
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