Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Boylan, Ross
Oops, I misspoke, the old system is Debian 5, lenny. The system the disks are on is running Debian 7, wheezy. And the system I am targetting is Debian 8, jessie. So the chroot would be lenny while the real system wouldl be wheezy. The wheezy system already hosts VM's with libvirt. But getting th

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Boylan, Ross
Like all the others, it probably won't be as easy to do as to contemplate :) Ross ________ From: Boylan, Ross Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 12:41:53 PM To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Forward porting a package I am trying to build db4.2 in jessie, altho

Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Boylan, Ross
I am trying to build db4.2 in jessie, although the package is from wheezy. I only need db4.2-util. I got the source and modified changed tcl8.4 to tcl8.6 in rules and control. But the build (invoked with dpkg-buildpackage) fails while running configure with checking size of char *... 0 checki