Thanks for the kick-start; I have gotten this to work. For the benefit of the other side discussions that this question started, let me give a little background. I wanted to install qmail which is only available in source form. Since it provides 'mail-user-agent', I wanted to do this by the book so that the package dependencies get updated correctly. In my RedHat days, every upgrade would break qmail (in a small but annoying way) and I want to avoid this with Debian.
I did have a small glitch in the process, though, and maybe someone has some insight into this. After I created the Packages file and told dselect about it and selected and deselected things, the Install step resulted in no errors but also no packages installed or removed. I then tried to do it with dpkg -i and it installed qmail and removed exim, just like I wanted. I just wonder why dselect didn't do it. -- Mark On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 09:05:38PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 07:23:25PM -0600, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > > I need to install from a source package and I have not been able to > > find the documentation on this. Would someone please point me to the > > right man page or give a quick summary? > > 1) Download the source components for the package of interest. There > are two possible combinations: > > *.dsc and *.tar.gz (debian-specific utility, such as apt) > *.dsc, *.orig.tar.gz, and *.diff.gz (everything else) > > 2) Unpack it into the current directory, with `dpkg-source -x *.dsc'. > > 3) cd into packagename-<version>, and run `debian/rules build'. > Technically, you can probably skip this step, as the make utility > should take care of this in the next step. > > 4) Generate the debfile with `fakeroot debian/rules binary'. As an > alternative to using fakeroot, you can issue `debian/rules binary' as > root. > > Assuming no errors, you should now have one or more installable debfiles > in the parent directory. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
