Re: building pine and stale dpkg entries
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:17:03PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to help a friend who's a Pine fan, get it built on Debian. I
> recall that it must be built from source, but I can't find any references on
> the Debian site to what the package names are.
>
> I finally found the following:
>
> tigger:~# dpkg -l "pine*"
...
> pn pine-tracker <none> (no description available)
This is the one to use.
> I tried pine4-diffs and pine4-src, but they're apparently not available.
> Why would they be in my available file if they're not available? How do I fix
> that, and where to such "stale" entries come from?
Sure :) Just source only.
> I then tried "apt-get source --compile pine", and that seems to work. My
> question is, how would I know this? I tried an apt-cache search for pine but
> it didn't show source packages. The FAQ doesn't mention the package names
> either.
Read Debian FAQ:
I thought
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/
mentioned.
I put similar info in Chapter 2 of "Debian reference". Specially:
2.1.14 The source code
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch-system.en.html#s-source
I can always do following to find out:
$ apt-cache search pine
...
pine-docs - Getting started with email using Pine
pine-tracker - Tracks pine uploads.
pgp4pine - A PGP/GPG Wrapper for Pine
...
topal - Links Pine and GnuPG together.
$ apt-cache show pine-tracker
Package: pine-tracker
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/admin
Installed-Size: 48
Maintainer: Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: pine
Version: 4.44-4
Filename: pool/non-free/p/pine/pine-tracker_4.44-4_all.deb
Size: 9106
MD5sum: 3e2183d3f68e970fe1cb467acd06e707
Description: Tracks pine uploads.
This package warns you about outdated pine packages in your system.
It compares its own version against the installed version of pine, pico, etc.
and suggests the user to update those packages if old packages are found.
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