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Re: have I messed up package management?



On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:14:48PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote:
> 
> What I did was to put in alsa-base 1.0.14-rc1 from Debian experimental and
> alsa-lib and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc2 from source.  I made deb files of these
> two but couldn't install them that way because of conflicts.  I tried
> checkinstall from unstable as well as dpkg -i.
> 
> I'm a little worried what sort of mess I'll have when it comes time to
> upgrade any of the debian packages involved.  dpkg still shows libasound2
> 1.0.13-1 installed, but many of those files were overwritten by the install
> of alsa-lib from source.  alsa-driver replaced files from the package
> linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 and a couple of others.  I did save archives of the
> original files but don't know if that will be enough.
> 
> Am I likely to have a mess on my hands upgrading any of the packages
> involved?  Thanks.
> 
That depends.  If you provide the exact error messages from dpkg when
you try to install with 'dpkg -i', then we can probably suggest how to
rebuild your .debs so that they will work with your setup.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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