Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:50:09PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:54:15PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > Making a custom build would be a moderately reasonable solution, but how can > > it actually be done for an ordinary package? No joke, looking at the source > > tree i

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:54:15PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > Making a custom build would be a moderately reasonable solution, but how can > it actually be done for an ordinary package? No joke, looking at the source > tree in bzip2-0.9.5d/, created by apt-get source, I can't even find where >

RE: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Glen S Mehn
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:54 PM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: package compilation madness On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:04:27AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Apt will assume you want the most up-to-date package, and, since the > package on th

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:04:27AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Apt will assume you want the most up-to-date package, and, since the > package on the ftp server is newer than the one you built, it gets > preferred. The easy solution is to put the package on hold -- but > this has the disadvantage

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:04:27AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Running on the theory that it might help speed up my Pentium II system > > (debatable, but that's beside the point), I've tried > > recompiling a selection of packages with pentium optimi

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Chris Waters
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Running on the theory that it might help speed up my Pentium II system > (debatable, but that's beside the point), I've tried > recompiling a selection of packages with pentium optimisation, downloading > the debian source and running `./debian/rules bina

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Germano Leichsenring
> Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Drew> a selection of packages with pentium optimisation, downloading Drew> the debian source and running `./debian/rules binary`. Did you actually install them with dpkg -i file.deb? -- Germano Leichsenring Kobe University

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-08 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 12:47:16PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote: [...] > An irritating problem. Would anyone happen to know why compiled packages > are getting "upgraded" and replaced in this way? I don't know why... maybe it's because the packages one makes for oneself are in no section? Maybe they

package compilation madness

2000-02-08 Thread Drew Parsons
Running on the theory that it might help speed up my Pentium II system (debatable, but that's beside the point), I've tried recompiling a selection of packages with pentium optimisation, downloading the debian source and running `./debian/rules binary`. However, after having done this, every time