On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:16:22PM -0500, xsdg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:13:23AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages > > are installed? I set up a small system, using potato, and am adding > > several packages from source. I added stuff like glib-1.2.8, tcl-8.32, > > tk8.3.2, etc. How can I tell apt that these packages are installed? > > Or at least make it think the potato version is installed. > You may want to take a close(r) look at apt-cache. I have no idea if I'm > correct, or if so, how to use it in this method, but it seems like the right > tool for the job... > Well, that lead me to the files I was looking for: /var/lib/dpkg/* I guess this would be better asked on the devel list *1, but does anyone have experience hacking /var/lib/dpkg/status ? I was wondering about the differences in "Replaces:", "Provides:", and "Conflicts:". For example, I installed glib-1.2.8 from source. I added an entry to the status file:
Package: libglig1.2-all Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 99 Maintainer: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.2.8-99 Replaces: libglib1.2 (<= 1.2.8-99), libglib1.2-dev (<= 1.2.8-99), libglib1.2-dbg (<= 1.2.8-99) Conflicts: libglib1.2 (<= 1.2.8-99), libglib1.2-dev (<= 1.2.8-99), libglib1.2-dbg (<= 1.2.8-99) Do I need to add a "Provides:" line also? Or is the "Replaces:" line enough by itself? I used stow to organize /usr/local, which made the file list easy to get: # find /usr/local/stow/glib -name \* -print > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libglib1.2-all.list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *1 I looked on the mailing list page and found debian-dpkg. For those reading this from debian-dpkg, please email me direct, or to debian-laptop. I would also like to know if there is a more elegant way of doing this. I saw a few packages for making .debs, are there any that work well for converting a stow heierarchy into packages?
