Re: outdated packages

["Jerry J. Jaskierny" <jaskiern@fscked.org>]

thanks, i'd already thought of that.  but i'd assume there has to be a
more convenient way.  debian can't possibly be built on just the packages
and dependencies it provides.

On 23 Mar 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote:

> Try downloading the deb source, patching the source, and then using
> dpkg-buildpackage or dpkg --build.  (Check the man pages.)  Make sure
> you get the source from the debian website or with apt, if you have
> the deb-src lines in sources.list, as it will contain debian
> subdirectory in the source tree, which is needed by dpkg to build
> debs.
> 
> Marshal
> 
> >>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry J Jaskierny <jaskiern@fscked.org> writes:
> 
>     > there are several packages included in debian archives that are
>     > outdated.  instead of installing the outdated ones, in some
>     > cases are useless to me, i want to compile an updated copy of
>     > the source.  i'm trying to figure out how i can compile this
>     > source, and let dpkg/dselect know that they've been installed.
>     > my first problem was alsa.  i had to compile and updated copy of
>     > alsa.  Esound needs to be installed with support with alsa, but
>     > dpkg doesn't know that alsa has been installed, causing an
>     > irritating chain of dependencies and problems.  does anyone know
>     > how to fix this?  i'm sure this has been answered before, but i
>     > couldn't find it anywhere in the archives.  and please reply to
>     > this address, as i am not currently subscribed to the mailing
>     > list.  thank you.  jerry jaskierny
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