[aur-general] AUR and deb or other precompiled stuff

[Ray Rashif]

On 4 June 2010 17:58, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 04/06/10 18:36, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
>>
>> Excerpts from Nathan O.'s message of 2010-06-04 10:42:33 +0200:
>>>
>>> @Philipp thanks for giving me the idea, I will see if I can find one,
>>> though I am not 100% sure I will be able to since it is not actually on
>>> Debian's site. Somebody built the package for the software author.
>>
>> Another place to look at is gentoo. They are quite up-to-date as well
>> and source based, it should be easy to find patches. It's the first
>> place I look at when hunting for patches.
>> If it is a gcc 4.5.0 issue then you might have no luck there either.
>
> Gentoo has users that like to bootstrap a system with prerelease gcc-*.0
> version so many fixes get included before the release.  Gentoo also has a
> bug report open for collecting gcc-4.5 issues.  There are relatively few.

That is why I have the entire portage tree locally, handy thing to
keep around. But wait, don't tell anyone!


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