Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:05 -0300, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Aniruddha <mailing_list@orange.nl> [2008.08.12.1958 -0300]:
> > I don't know how the debs are packaged, for all I know they can
> > wreck my system. Or are are there safety features in place that
> > prevents that from happening?
>
> dpkg will prevent them from overwriting files by other packages.
If I understand your correctly I can install deb from any 3rd party provider without fear of b0rking my system. If this is true I don't understand why you warn
against checkinstall.
(Sorry to bother you with these details but I am still trying to
understand)
>
> > I unpacked the deb and didn't find any /DEBIAN/* files. I guess It's
> > time to start reading the Debian developers manual ;)
>
> You want dpkg-deb -e, not -x.
>
Thanks!
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Regards,
Aniruddha
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