on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:34:31AM -0500, Branden Robinson (branden@debian.org) wrote: > Someone please introduce this gentleman to our packaging system! :) > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | > Debian GNU/Linux | If ignorance is bliss, > branden@debian.org | is omniscience hell? > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | > Delivered-To: branden+debian@deadbeast.net > From: jps@maxlingua.com > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:40:31 -0400 > To: branden@debian.org > Subject: xfree86, installation question > User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i > > Sorry to trouble you, but if you have a moment to answer a > question, I would appreciate it. > > I run Debian/Sid on all my machines. I use apt and dpkg for > every application but XFree86. My XFree86 server is installed > by direct application of `yes | sh Xinstall.sh' in the XFree86 4.1.0 > binaries directory I keep lying around. > Everytime new XFree86 packages are installed on my system (I use > `apt-get dist-upgrade' everyday) my XFree86 installation is broken. > Then I have to run `yes | sh Xinstall.sh' again, and round and round > we go! > > Do you have any ideas how I can bring my systems in line with the Debian > packages (without losing all my installed X applications)? There's a package called 'equivs', which lets you create dummy packages to get around the fact that, say, you're using an external source for your XFree86 system, despite the fact that every X app requires this to function. Why aren't you using X from the Debian packaging system? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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