Re: alternative to tarballs

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:59:31AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > 2. Install packages in /usr/local using 'make install' and then use >equivs to let the packaging system know you've installed a package >manually. If you're doing this, I highly recommend using GNU Stow (packaged for debian, o

Re: alternative to tarballs

2002-04-03 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:42:45PM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote: > Hi, Is there an alternative to using tarballs? Something like > make-kpkg for the kernel. Im having some trobles installing some of my > tarball since it doenst update the dpkg database. Im having some > difficulties looking for s

Re: alternative to tarballs

2002-04-03 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:42:45PM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote: > Is there an alternative to using tarballs? Something like make-kpkg > for the kernel. Im having some trobles installing some of my tarball > since it doenst update the dpkg database. Im having some > difficulties looking

Re: alternative to tarballs

2002-04-03 Thread Brian Nelson
"Aldous B Bernardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Is there an alternative to using tarballs? Something like > make-kpkg for the kernel. Im having some trobles installing some of > my tarball since it doenst update the dpkg database. Im having some > difficulties looking for some deb packages t

alternative to tarballs

2002-04-03 Thread Aldous B Bernardo
Hi, Is there an alternative to using tarballs? Something like make-kpkg for the kernel. Im having some trobles installing some of my tarball since it doenst update the dpkg database. Im having some difficulties looking for some deb packages that I opt to use tarballs instead ( sometimes there