Re: [PLUG] Update on My Debian Progress

[christophe barbé <christophe.barbe.ml@online.fr>]

It's good to polute only in /usr/local but if you build a soft that
has a lot of dependencies (most of the times it's certainly the case),
your next debian upgrade will broke your in-/usr/local soft.

There is a debian tool (dh_make) that allow you to easily create a 
debian package from a tarball and this is really easy if the source 
uses autoconf & co.  With a home-build package, you will be informed 
if the upgrade process broke a dependencies and you would only have 
to rebuild your package against the upgraded libs.

I would suggest as a starting point the doc package :
   maint-guide

Christophe

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 02:59:14PM +0100, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 08:29:37AM -0500, christophe barbé wrote:
> > IMHO tarball and debian do not fit well together. Each time you use a
> > tarball instead of a debian package, you decrease the power of debian
> > and its managment of dependencies (i.e. you broke dependencies).
> 
> I sometimes resort to tarballs, but handle it by configuring with
> --prefix=/usr/local (often the default), and then PATH and
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH get /usr/local after /usr/bin and other debian
> controlled places. Or I even configure to $HOME/local for things that
> are just one user (and the user can decide whether to put $HOME/local
> first or last).
> 
> In other words, tarballs don't necessarily obligate you to install to
> /usr/bin, which is what can mess up dpkg's view of the world.
> 
> -- 
>  Jeff
> 
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