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 ?