Re: Alive?

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 12:26:47PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	It's time to ask some questions about the Linux packages 
> 	suite.  Does dpkg allow the user to install the src code
> 	in some /usr directory; then build and install the binary
> 	after it's been built?  ...Or does dpkg just install the
> 	binary (and any ancillary files?

dpkg only works with binary packages. There are tools for extracting
source packages and creating them, but nothing more. You don't install
them and they don't have a standard location (like /usr/src or /usr/local/src
or /usr/src/redhat on a RH system).

> 	I very rarely just install a binary; I prefer building 
> 	from source.

Here at Debian we consider that idea out-dated :-)


Hamish
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