[Sussex] point for info on exim4

[Thomas Adam]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:24:58 +0100
Geoffrey Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> Debian source package?
> 
> AFAIK all the file you'll need are at:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/source/exim

Trying to do a "simple sid backport" of this nature with exim4 is not
going to be a good idea, in the long run. As to why you would want to
compile it yourself, when you could use a backport, other than for your
own amusement is beyond me. That said, you can *try* the following (but
be aware that doing this from Sid might not work -- given the core
library mismatched versions):

1. add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ unstable main

2. apt-get update

3. apt-get install build-essential fakeroot

4. apt-get build-dep exim4

5. Edit whatever files you need to, and run:

fakeroot debian/rules binary

6. Install the debs created. 

-- Thomas Adam
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