RE: outdated deb's in dselect
On 14-May-2000 jerry j jaskierny wrote:
> i'm having problems with outdated packages and dselect, ala dpkg. for
> instance, the alsa modules at version 4.1 are pretty old. say i want the
> updated alsa, for whatever reason. unsupported soundcard, whatever. so i
> download the source from alsa and install it. but i also want to install
> xmms and various other software that depend on the debianized alsa modules.
> and i can't have the debian alsa modules installed and the downloaded source
> installed at the same time. is there anyway around this, other t
> han to exit dselect, forcing dependencies every time via "Q"? thanks for
> your time. jerry
>
>
1) update your system to potato
or
2) when you compile source you download, make a deb out of it. Grab the
'debian' directory out of the debian source, place it in the downloaded
tarball, and run 'fakeroot debian/rules binary' from the toplevel source
directory. You should edit the changelog to make the version different from
that in debian. Something like <upstream_version>-0 is good.
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