On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:42:45PM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote: > Is there an alternative to using tarballs? Something like make-kpkg > for the kernel. Im having some trobles installing some of my tarball > since it doenst update the dpkg database. Im having some > difficulties looking for some deb packages that I opt to use > tarballs instead ( sometimes there are RPMs but.. no thanks :) ) I > was very much impressed by the way make-kpkg compiled and made my > custom kernel that I wanted to create packages the same way. Should > I compile them to deb first? If so.. how? You want the equivs package: From 'apt-cache show equivs': Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian packages, which only contain dependency information. . This way, you can make the Debian package management system believe that equivalents to packages on which other packages do depend on are actually installed. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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