ModemManager update

[Yegor Yefremov]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 11:04 AM Alexander Dahl <ada at thorsis.com> wrote:
>
> Hej hej,
>
> Am Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 06:28:56PM -0600 schrieb Artur Maciuszonek:
> > Thank you I'll look into it.  I have to target an older version of Debian
> > for now 10.11 Buster
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 6:05 PM Lech Perczak <lech.perczak at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Artur, Aleksander,
> > >
> > > I think your best bet is compiling .deb's based on source files
> > > available from Sid:
> > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libqmi-glib5
> > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmbim-glib4
> > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/modemmanager
> > >
> > > These are IIRC the latest release, or very close to.  I managed to
> > > successfully compile those against current stable (Bullseye) - they run
> > > well. You'll have to compile them in that order, as usually don for
> > > Debian packages, because of dependencies, and install respective -dev
> > > packages to build the next ones.
> > >
> > > Installing packages directly from Sid won't work, as required glibmm is
> > > too new for Bullseye.
>
> I had to rebuild some newer packages in the past, and I found this
> description on how to do it most helpful:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial

For those who need the full control over the Debian distribution: ELBE
Project [1].

You can also use its pbuilder feature [2] to build your own debs or
even build them automatically when creating CD-ROMs etc.

[1] https://elbe-rfs.org/
[2] https://elbe-rfs.org/docs/sphinx/devel_elbe-3.0/elbe-pbuilder.html

Cheers,
Yegor