On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:43:08PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +0000, cyril said > > as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on > > handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be > > aware of if I choose to build some software from source on a stable Debian > > environment. > If you build things from source, dpkg won't be aware of them, therefore > apt will try to install them if something depends on them.
>From my (limited) experience with Gentoo I think it's possible to install something from source and tell emerge about it, so it won't try and install a package for it. There doesn't seem a way to do this with Debian; maybe manually setting the Status in /var/lib/dpkg/status ? -- dave thorn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
