Re: backporting Questions

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Elliot Dray wrote: > > To build the package it needs root-like privileges and so use > > fakeroot. But don't use real root. > > Is it just because of good practice why you shouldn't use root? there is no > technical reason, is there? Good practice, good sense. Building packages implies debug a

Re: backporting Questions

2003-06-18 Thread Elliot Dray
Elliot Dray wrote: 1) when you issue the command "apt-get -b build-dep" what exactly does the build-dep do, does it install dependencies from the branch your trying to install the package from? I think you have this command confused with another. apt-get build-dep packagename I got that command

Re: backporting Questions

2003-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Elliot Dray wrote: > 1) when you issue the command "apt-get -b build-dep" what exactly does the > build-dep do, does it install dependencies from the branch your trying to > install the package from? I think you have this command confused with another. apt-get build-dep packagename That comm

backporting Questions

2003-06-17 Thread Elliot Dray
Hello, I've been reading this list for months, over and over again I see that we (users) are discouraged from running mixed environments, many good reasons have been given for not running mixed environments. Often the alternative of backporting the application from testing or unstable has been