How often do you (I assume a developer) trying to make a suit for this small creature? Aren’t such “features” just a mistake in software specification? If it’s something that is visible just after product is deployed and it’s OK from specification point of view:
- Someone has not predicted errant situation during specification phase
- OR: your waterfall (yes, it’s a linear analysis-project-implementation-test flow!) process is basically not working now
I believe without formal methods you are not able to predict all possible specification inconsistencies before implementation. Even very accurate review process might leave some holes in specification that lead to obvious bugs as a result.
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Sometimes you want to install latest version of selected software package while keeping base system stable. Then installing from source is a safe option to proceed.
First, you have to include sources from fresh system version, below is example taken from Ubuntu, I selected natty (/etc/apt/sources.list):
deb-src http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty main restricted
Then you should refresh package list:
sudo apt-get update
and install dependencies:
sudo apt-get build-dep ccache
and finally build the new version of a package (note that no root account is needed for that step):
apt-get -b source ccache
As a result there’s a *.deb package, install it:
sudo dpkg -i ccache*.deb
That’s all!
