backporting subversion to both edgy and dapper

[John Dong]

To edit the depends of the backport, you need to unpack (apt-get source
packagename) the source package, and edit the debian/control file. In that
file you'll find a Build-Depends line. Everything listed there will be
attempted for installation within the chroot. This is the way all proper
Debian developers do it.

On 1/18/07, francis west <incorrect.iirc at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bishbosh,
>    thanks for the help,   I had a look a prevu earlier,  i found it tricky
> to work with as i wanted to in to the chroot and alter some of the depends
> to complete the backport.    I've actually managed to complete backport for
> myself,   I didn't see in the rules that you could disable the package
> checking,  I think it was to do with the earlier note about gc-j not being
> good enough to complete the integrity check!
>
> Thanks
> Francis
>
> On 1/18/07, Bishiboosh <bishiboosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > francis west a écrit :
> > > Hello,
> > >     as this is my first time posting I hope i have the right mailing
> > > list,  I have started to backport subversion 1.4.2 from feisty to both
> > > dapper and edgy.   What i have done is create chroot's of each using
> > > debootstrap (as i used to on debian)  i removed all the source
> > packages
> > > from apt and added one for feisty.
> > >
> > > I grabbed the source using apt-get source subversion,   once that was
> > > done i started work on backporting the dependants,  apache2 etc, etc
> > > they all compiled fine,  i admit i haven't done anything to check
> > things
> > > like apache other than dpkg i the lib that was needed to compile
> > > subversion.
> > >
> > > to build the packages i used 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot'  i hope
> > this
> > > is the right way, i have found many tools that build debs however i
> > > don't know which is the definitive?
> > >
> > > keeping going i got to the point where all the dependencies for
> > > subversion had been met,   i even backported 'debhelper' (this package
> >
> > > is problem where the problem is i guess)
> > > subversion is very odd as it doesn't let you build the package as
> > root,
> > > so i did 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot'  this this command
> > the
> > > root checking was satisfied and the package started to compile.  oh
> > yes
> > > right now i should mention that i have the same error on both edgy and
> > > dapper.  some time later the build fails with the following:  (yes i
> > > finally got there)
> > >
> > > START: strings-reps-test
> > > lt-strings-reps-test: invalid option:
> > > --srcdir=/usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
> > /subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base
> > > PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 1: write a new rep, get a new key back
> > > CLEANUP:
> > > /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
> > /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-write-new-rep
> > > PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 2: write a new rep, then overwrite it
> > > CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-
> > > 1.4.2dfsg1/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-write-rep
> > > PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 3: write and overwrite a new rep; confirm
> > > with reads
> > > CLEANUP:
> > > /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion- 1.4.2dfsg1
> > /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-read-rep
> > >
> > > PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 4: write, then delete, a new rep; confirm
> > > deletion
> > > CLEANUP:
> > > /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion- 1.4.2dfsg1
> > /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-delete-rep
> > > PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 5: test many strings table functions
> > together
> > > CLEANUP:
> > > /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-test-strings
> > > PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 6: write a null string
> > > CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-
> > > 1.4.2dfsg1/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-test-strings
> >
> > > PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 7: write a string, then abort during an
> > > overwrite
> > > CLEANUP:
> > > /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-abort-string
> >
> > >
> > > PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 8: create and copy a string
> > > CLEANUP:
> > > /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
> > /BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-copy-string
> > > END: strings-reps-test
> > >
> > > make: *** [debian/stamp-build-arch] Error 1
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't know what makes me think it but i am suspect that i will need
> > to
> > > backport dpkg-dev to backport subversion.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Francis
> > >
> >
> > Hmmm...As specified in a post in Ubuntu Forums, backporting in Ubuntu is
> > very simple using prevu (which uses pbuilder).
> >
> > Please refer to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=269238 to
> > understand it better.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bishi.
> >
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