[darcs-users] [darcs-devel] buildbot failure in darcs on zooko allmydata slave3 Linux-2.6.15 Ubuntu-6.06.2 LTS i386

[Trent W. Buck]

zooko <zooko at zooko.com> writes:

> [Dapper's GHC can't compile current Darcs.]
> [Installing packages without using APT sucks.]
> [...] so the best way for darcs to support Ubuntu dapper in the future
> is to host such a repository, like this one contributed by Iain Lane:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~laney/+archive

If unmodified darcs builds for hardy will work on dapper, end users can
simply do this:

1. setting APT::Default-Release to dapper in apt.conf (or by pinning);
2. adding a newer release (e.g. hardy) to sources.list; and
3. apt-get install darcs/hardy

This is how I handle cherry-picking from Sid on my Lenny laptop, and IMO
it's far simpler than requiring someone to maintain a separate APT repo
for each package you want to back-install.  (It's needed for "real"
backPORTing because backports are actually recompiled against old libs.)