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This looks pretty good - it's always painful installing packages from source (RVM included in that) mainly as a time + another thing I have to maintain thing.
by omarqureshi 15y ago
This looks pretty good - it's always painful installing packages from source (RVM included in that) mainly as a time + another thing I have to maintain thing.
I'm not that familiar with Debian package management but would it be much work to also have these packages working on squeeze too? In which case I would most likely start using Debian a lot more.
- comice 15y agoThey should build without much modification - it just needs a bit of effort to setup a repository and do the builds. If there is demand for it, we could look at doing it.
- obtu 15y agoRebuilding the source packages should be easy enough, just loop over the .dsc urls and run dget -x; sudo mk-build-deps -i; debuild; sudo debi. pbuilder and sbuild also work for cross-builds, but I didn't get the hang of cross-building entire package graphs.
- beza1e1 15y agoA "backport" in Debian speak. I use this script for such things: https://gitorious.org/qznc/backporter/blobs/master/backport.sh https://gitorious.org/qznc/backporter/blobs/master/backport....