On 14-May-2000 jerry j jaskierny wrote: > i'm having problems with outdated packages and dselect, ala dpkg. for > instance, the alsa modules at version 4.1 are pretty old. say i want the > updated alsa, for whatever reason. unsupported soundcard, whatever. so i > download the source from alsa and install it. but i also want to install > xmms and various other software that depend on the debianized alsa modules. > and i can't have the debian alsa modules installed and the downloaded source > installed at the same time. is there anyway around this, other t > han to exit dselect, forcing dependencies every time via "Q"? thanks for > your time. jerry > >
1) update your system to potato or 2) when you compile source you download, make a deb out of it. Grab the 'debian' directory out of the debian source, place it in the downloaded tarball, and run 'fakeroot debian/rules binary' from the toplevel source directory. You should edit the changelog to make the version different from that in debian. Something like <upstream_version>-0 is good.
