On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:32:31PM +0200, Ryszard Lach wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:43:42AM -0800, Mike Markley wrote: > > Compiling it for testing's generally useless... you'll just want to built it > > on unstable, then in a stable chroot, or vice-versa and let the normal > > testing process handle that part of it. See the list archives (I believe it > > was on -devel, but -mentors has had several posts about it) for info on > > setting up a chroot... > > I don't want to compile for testing, but to have working package in stable and > testing distributions. >
Ryszard, If I understand your question right, you want to have binary packages for two different distributions for your local use? As for uploading to debian incoming, you only need to upload the binary and source package for one distribution (preferably unstable). You can get two working binary packages for two different distributions using the following simple rules. (a) If you have an unstable distribution (or a chrooted unstable environment), build your package there. (b) Then use the source package from above, and build the same in a stable distribution (or a chrooted stable environment). Or obviouly, vice versa with a & b above. The above should work in most cases, except when a library that is required is available in one distribution, but is either obsolete or not available for the other distribution. I typically have two separate local apt repositories for my own use for both stable and unstable dists. >Both (binary) packages should have the same version then ? Yeah they can have the same version, but be very careful in specifying your apt repositories in your sources file -- Gopal Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux Developer Dept. of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
