[Fwd: Re: Installing Packages From Source]

[Jeff Grossman <jeff@stikman.com>]

I accidentally replied to the sender and not the list.

Jeff

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Installing Packages From Source
Date: 	Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:40:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	Jeff Grossman <jeff@stikman.com>
To: 	Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>



> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:23:29 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> > There are a few packages that I install directly from source onto my
> > system.  On Aptitude I noticed the markauto option.  Should I let
> > aptitude
> > know that I have installed those packages manually?
>
> That should not be necessary; aptitude assumes "manually" anyway for
> packages which it did not install itself.
>
> > The packages that I have installed by source are:
> >
> > MIMEDefang
> > Dovecot
> > SpamAssassin
>
> You can check what aptitude thinks about them:
>
> aptitude search spamassassin dovecot mimedefang
>
> Manually installed packages have status "i  " while automatically
> installed ones have "i A".

They have a "c" next to them.

Jeff