This is doable now that we have openimageio in quantal. I did a test rebuild of blender 2.63a-1 from debian unstable for precise with cycles enabled, and it seems to be working fine (at ppa:jconti/testing )
The problem is that openimageio currently only builds for i386/amd64 while blender builds for all of our architectures. This is being worked on in debian ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658075 ) and 1.0.3+dfsg0-1 improves the situation.
This is doable now that we have openimageio in quantal. I did a test rebuild of blender 2.63a-1 from debian unstable for precise with cycles enabled, and it seems to be working fine (at ppa:jconti/testing )
The problem is that openimageio currently only builds for i386/amd64 while blender builds for all of our architectures. This is being worked on in debian ( http:// bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 658075 ) and 1.0.3+dfsg0-1 improves the situation.