Re: how do i "outsmart" apt-get regarding package dependencies?
On Wed, 7 May 2003 15:35:20 +0100
Tom Badran <tb100@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 May 2003 3:01 pm, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> > Good Morning,
> > We have a new Debian mail server running woody. I have a question
> > about this server and apt-get. There are a number of packages on this
> > server that we have built from source (apache, sendmail, cyrus) due to
> > some complex things we include in our builds.
> > However, there are a number of programs that I need to install
> > (logrotate, mailx, etc.) that need an MTA. apt-get doesn't know or think
> > that we have one installed since sendmail was compiled from source.
> > Therefore, it demands to download exim, or another mta of our choice:
>
> you can use the equivs package and build dummys for things you have installed
> from source.
>
> Tom
>
or you could get 'CheckInstall' program and make _real_ foo.deb packages from
your source compilings, check http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
Ted
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