On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 04:22:14PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 08:16:00PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 01:59:14PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > Are there instructions somewhere whereby a novice could backport a
> > > package? I'm interested in backportin opam and related stuff because
> > > the opam in jessie is dangerously obsolete. It is no longer
> > > compatible with the opam archive format.
> > >
> >
> > The only problem might be that most of the times backporting a package
> > could imply backporting also some of its deps. For the rest, it might
> > possibly be relatively straightforward.
>
> Of course it may imply further backports. But how do I do it?
>

You basically rebuild the newer package under the release you would
like to backport it. In terms of how you do repackage for Devuan, the
link below:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=549

might be useful.

HND

KatolaZ

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