Build a Bleeding edge package for Ubuntu6.10 (edgy) from the 7.04(feisty) sources

This is a way to get some more recent packages from feisty to replace the older package in edgy.

This does not work on all packages but most smaller packages should work, sometimes its a matter of trial and error.

Fist you have to replace edgy to feisty in the deb-src lines in your sources.list, NOT in the deb lines.

sources.list example:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricteddeb-src http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricteddeb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe multiverse

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted

deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe multiverse

deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe

I did not change the security and backports sources; they are not active in feisty yet.

Time to set up the needed packages for creating .debs:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fakeroot build-essential

In this example I am going to get the sources and compile a .deb of xchat 2.8.0 from the sources of the feisty repository.
First install the dependencies to make the compile for xchat to a .deb work:

sudo apt-get build-dep xchat

Then make a folder for xchat where the .debs are created and go in that folder and start creating your .debs:

mkdir xchat
cd xchat
fakeroot apt-get source -b xchat

The sources and other needed files are downloaded and start a compile of debs for xchat.

Now install the created .debs, in my case :

sudo dpkg -i xchat_2.8.0-0ubuntu4_i386.deb xchat-common_2.8.0-0ubuntu4_all.deb

And you have the latest version of xchat installed.

in short:

sudo apt-get build-dep <package>

fakeroot apt-source -b <package>

sudo dpkg -i <created .debs>