Comments on: Backporting mercurial 0.9.5 to Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy”

By: Mekk

Mekk — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:55:59 +0000

Tiny (non-crucial) suggestion – it might be slightly more manageable to create the new file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hardysources.list (or so) and put the deb line there instead of editing main sources.list (which is better left for GUI tools). The rest works in the same way

By: gldnspud

gldnspud — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:51:54 +0000

@David: I’m glad it worked out well for you! It did take me a few years to remember all the pieces involved in doing something like that, and it’s still magical for me. I applaud Debian for building such a great set of tools.

What you just did was take a source package for something that’s in hardy but not gutsy, installed all of its build dependencies (which *are* in gutsy), built the source package into a .deb file, then installed the resulting .deb file. :)

By: David Van Couvering

David Van Couvering — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:11:12 +0000

Thanks, this was a life-saver! 0.9.4 is not supported in my group, and I really had no idea how to upgrade. I would *not* have been able to figure out these steps for the life of me – I actually still don’t know what I just did, but it worked! :)

By: gldnspud

gldnspud — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:18:16 +0000

@Mike: Thanks, I’ve corrected that mistake.

@Jamie: I just switched to Mac OS X again as my primary workstation, and 8.04 will hopefully be released on time, so I don’t think I will be the one to create a PPA. If someone else does though, I’ll gladly link to it at the top of this post. :)

By: Jamie Whitehouse

Jamie Whitehouse — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:53:42 +0000

Any chance we could see this published in a Personal Package Archive (PPA) for those of use who don’t have the whole dev toolchain installed?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:13:36 +0000

Thanks for this tip. In trying it, I notice Step 5 needs to be “sudo apt-get build-dep mercurial”.