Hi kevin, On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Kevin Coyner told: > > I recently moved from RH and SuSE over to Debian, and wished I would > have done it sooner. The whole distro is nice, but in particular > apt-get is great. > > So far I've only installed standard tools/utilities/programs readily > available via apt-get and stable/testing. I'd like to avoid unstable if > possible. > > Question: how do I maintain the robustness of apt-get yet be able to > download binaries and patches and compile them myself? > > Example: I use and love Mutt. Testing has v1.4, which I've apt-get > installed, but I'd like to recompile it with a few patches that I like. > But if I do the compiling, make and make install myself, then I lose the > ability to track it in apt-get. [...] Thereis one possibility out of much: Get mutt-sources from mutt.org. Patch them as you want to. Do a normal configure (you must decide which options), make and checkinstall instead of install. see apt-cache show checkinstall HTH -- Planung: Ersatz des Zufalls durch den Irrtum. -unknown-
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