Re: replacing debs with locally compiled packages
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jim wrote:
> This one's a quickie. Seems to me that if I want to replace a package
> I've already installed with the distro (slink) with my own build of the
> source, I should just be able to remove (w/o purging configs) the package
> using dselect/dpkg and then go ahead and install my own build.
Instead of replacing it, i'd install my version in /usr/local and remove
the debs. Maybe that's what you meant, but just in case (and for anyone
else who might be reading)...
> Is there any possibility for hosing myself with this method? For example,
> right now I want to replace my Enlightenment 0.15 with the 0.16 source.
> I'm expecting to be able to just remove the old package and install the
> new one by hand. Nothing wrong with this, right? I've done this before
> with some smaller packages but never with anything as significant as a
> window manager.
You might get in trouble with dependancies, unless you make proper use of
the equivs package. And unless you look into how the menu system works,
you won't get an entry in the Debian menus (don't worry, at worst copy the
one from the old E). If you're not careful and the program is strange, it
could put config files in strange places.
All in all, just use common sense and you should be fine.
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