building packages from hardy source for gutsy

[Donatas G.]

On Monday 28 January 2008 16:47:10 Donatas G. rašė:
> The way I usually do it is this:
>
> add the deb-src for hardy to /etc/apt/sources.list
> do
> 	apt-get update
> then do
> 	apt-get source kdesudo
> which would set up the sources for me.
>
> And then - the usual
>
> cd kdesudo
> sudo apt-get build-dep kdesudo
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
> cd ../
> sudo dpkg -i kdesudo*.deb
>
> However, I have seen in some howto the manual way of doing this - so that I
> would not have to apt-get source the package (and change the sources
> repositories to hardy if I still need gutsy once in a while).
>
> What is the command to execute that sets up the sources, once I have
> downloaded the appropriate
> 	kdesudo*.tar.gz
> 	kdesudo*.diff.gz
> 	kdesudo*.dsc
> files?

I found the answer to this one. it is: 

$ dpkg-source -x kdesudo_2.1-0ubuntu1.dsc

and the sources are set up correctly. 

What about the more automatic way with "apt-get source -t distribution 
packagename" option? 

> I do also remember (from the old time I used debian) that apt is capable of
> using the specified release version of the packages to download (or
> install) using the -t releaseversion option. But I have to set up apt-get
> to do that as well as adding the proper repositories. This would be even
> more convenient than the above thing, does anyone know how to do that in
> Ubuntu?



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