sean finney on 24 Apr 2006 17:16:55 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] apt problem


On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:35:07AM -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > what i would probably do in your case (i can't say not knowing more)
> > is to:
> >
> > - stay with the "official" version of libfoo that anything else in your
> >   distro may use
> > - recompile the packages with conflicting dependencies from their source
> >   packages (possibly modifying/removing their build-dependencies if
> >   necessary).
> 
> What do you think of checkinstall?  I wanted to minimize non-apt packages?

i'm generally unimpressed by it, but haven't used it extensively
so i could be missing out on something.  but i suspect you
misunderstood my suggestion.  my suggestion was to recompile
the source packages into new debian binary packages.  something
like:

apt-get source foo
apt-get build-dep foo
cd foo-version
# fix any broken versioned build-depencies here
$EDITOR debian/control 
dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg -i ../$generated_debs

kind of a poor man's backport.  as i mentioned, the advantage of this
is that you can do it once and never think about it again because the
package management system is happy and it will default to keeping the
status quo until the package maintainer fixes the problem.


	sean

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