Andrew C Aitchison wrote on 13.09.2022 13:44: >> Or you may use source package from Debian repo: >> >> wget http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.96-3.dsc >> wget >> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.96.orig.tar.xz >> wget >> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.96.orig.tar.xz.asc >> wget >> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.96-3.debian.tar.xz > > Or perhaps > apt-get source exim4 > - assuming you have a suitable source repo enabled.
That is right if there is a fresh package in the repo. By default exim4_4.94.2-7 is available in Devuan 4. I didn't check any backports repo (I'm not Debian or Devuan user). >> dpkg-source -x exim4_4.96-3.dsc >> cd exim4-4.96 >> dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc >> cd .. >> >> There are some additional patches in exim4-4.96/debian/patches. >> >> But you will have to install many more packages. >> >> These packages are for building packages: >> >> apt-get install -y dpkg-dev devscripts build-essential pbuilder quilt m4 >> make >> >> These packages are for dependency resolving: >> >> apt-get install default-libmysqlclient-dev docbook-xml docbook-xsl >> libdb5.3-dev libgnutls28-dev libident-dev libidn11-dev libidn2-dev >> libldap2-dev libpam0g-dev libpcre2-dev libperl-dev libpq-dev >> libsasl2-dev libspf2-dev libsqlite3-dev libx11-dev libxaw7-dev >> libxext-dev libxmu-dev libxt-dev lynx xsltproc > > I would expect that > apt-get build-dep exim4 > would be simpler. ... If fresh version of exim is available in any Devuan 4 repo. p. s. -- Best wishes Victor Ustugov mailto:vic...@corvax.kiev.ua public GnuPG/PGP key: https://victor.corvax.kiev.ua/corvax.asc -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
