On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:24:38AM -0300, D G Teed wrote: > A user would like the latest and greatest zsh and we have > a deb package for it. For security purposes I want to > keep the slightly older version of zsh obtained and maintained > from debian packages as the system default zsh. > > I'm willing to install the later version of zsh in an alternate directory, > say under their home or in /usr/local for the one user. > > I thought perhaps dpkg --root /usr/local/zsh with a copy of > /var/lib/dpkg placed under /usr/local/zsh would do the trick, > but it isn't happy as some part of this still believes we > are working on the main system dpkg path: > [cut: errors] > > Building from source would work too, but typically has care and feeding steps > just to get all the deps in line. > > What is the best way to use a deb package and not have it as part > of the system's knowledge of installed packages? It is OK if at runtime > zsh has dependancy on system libs.
Well, I can see this, at least, being a problem. What if, for example, the latest version of zsh depends on a version of a system library that's incompatible with your current libraries (i.e. an ABI change)? I would suspect your best bet is to set up a chroot with the new zsh and its associated dependecies and set up an alias for the user such as "alias new_zsh='chroot /path/to/chroot /bin/zsh'". -- Darac Marjal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110823143355.ga17...@darac.org.uk
