On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:09:04AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:49:57PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > It would be useful to know how to do this in the more general case, > > where there isn't a convenient command like make-kpkg. > > > > My particular case is X 4.2.0, which I downloaded the source of and > > compiled for slink, then for woody when I upgraded. But of course > > woody's packaging system doesn't realise it's there and keeps wanting > > to pull in bits of the woody X. > > > > No doubt the "Debian way" to fix this would be to get the X 4.2.1 > > source package from testing and build that. But I'm on dialup, and the > > idea of re-downloading 100Mb or so compares poorly with that of > > editing a few files to achieve the same result. > > No, the debian way is to do one of the following: > > 1) download the diff and dsc file, apply to your source, build debian > package. > > 2) use the "equivs" package. It claimns it is a hack (and it is) but > it works as long as you have a clue. You can really break your > system with it if you do not :-) 3) get the woody backport of X4.2 from http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/ :) -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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