Re: building from source advice
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:43:08PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +0000, cyril said
> > as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on
> > handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be
> > aware of if I choose to build some software from source on a stable Debian
> > environment.
> If you build things from source, dpkg won't be aware of them, therefore
> apt will try to install them if something depends on them.
>From my (limited) experience with Gentoo I think it's possible to
install something from source and tell emerge about it, so it won't try
and install a package for it. There doesn't seem a way to do this with
Debian; maybe manually setting the Status in /var/lib/dpkg/status ?
--
dave thorn
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