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