Package upgrading: cream & vim

[ehurst]

Is there a simple set of steps for this?

I've been trying to get my head around this, but I can't find any examples: Running AMD64, I noticed that the cream/vim-gnome combination has not yet been backported for Vim 7.0 on my architecture. I'm willing to build from source, and would expect there's a way to do this with apt-get or dpkg. However, I'm afraid this bites off more than I can chew on my own. This would mean building several DEBs at once:

• vim
• vim-common
• vim-gnome
• vim-gui-common
• vim-runtime

I suspect all this vim stuff comes from a single tarball. Cream I can handle manually for the upgrade, simply by removing the package and installing the new version from the project. If I did something like:

apt-get build-dep vim vim-common vim-gnome vim-gui-common vim-runtime
apt-get -b source vim vim-common vim-gnome vim-gui-common vim-runtime

Would that work? Would it give me the update version I seek?

[Aldrik]

Re: Package upgrading: cream & vim

Would it give me the update version I seek?

No, the same version as in the repos (as that's where it'll be getting the source files). You'd wanna do the build-dep command & then download vim's source from their website & then build it (instructions should be included).

[ehurst]

Re: Package upgrading: cream & vim

I'll do that. However, for future reference, just one more fine point: All the other architectures do have 7.0 in that same repo, and the 7.0 source is there in the repo. It just hasn't been built for AMD64. Same result?

[Aldrik]

Re: Package upgrading: cream & vim

I'll do that. However, for future reference, just one more fine point: All the other architectures do have 7.0 in that same repo, and the 7.0 source is there in the repo. It just hasn't been built for AMD64. Same result?

I guess you'd get the newest source files then (7.0), but if they'd not need compiled for amd64 there would likely be a reason/conflict.

Having said that, the ubuntu repos has the same version for all architectures as dose the debian repo....?

[ehurst]

Re: Package upgrading: cream & vim

This was a reference to the Backports stuff http://backports.org/debian/pool/main/v/vim/. I've done the deed and offered the results to the Backport folks. I have no idea why they didn't do it for AMD64, but I really do feel a need for Vim 7.0.