On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Ray Schultz wrote: > A friend and myself are setting up a Debian server for our LUG. > It is based on 2.1. Except my friend wanted to custom compile > Apache to do some automatic module loading. > > My question is what command do I use to let the Debian Database > know that Apache has been installed but not with a deb package?
You should create/install an empty package that has in the control file "Provides: apache, apache-doc, apache-whatever..." But be warned that other packages that depend on Apache may depend on a particular feature or directory locations within the debian package of Apache. > Am I correct to be concerned about this? My system needs to > know that a program like Apache has been installed in order to > keep the libraries updated when it comes time to upgrade to Potato? You really only need to be concerned if you want to install a package that depends on apache. But if you're compiling apache you probably want to compile those modules as well. Upgrading to potato shouldn't provide any problems with user-compiled software (except possible glibc 2.0.x->2.1.x problems) and apt-get won't upgrade a package you don't already have installed unless you want to install that depends on it, thus the suggestion above. -- Ashley Clark
