Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "man dpkg" shows an interesting option, -root. If this works as > expected, it could be used to install .debs without "contaminating" the > system.
It doesn't do what you expect. It's more intended to be used in a situation like booting from the rescue disk, where your normal root filesystem is mounted on /target; then you can use 'dpkg --root /target', since things like /target/var/lib/dpkg exist, and when you reboot the system hard-coded paths in binaries (like /etc) point to the right place. > Can anybody see how else I could install unofficial .debs from private > repositories, with an ease as close to "apt-get install package" as > possible *but* keep them separate from the main Debian software within > the system? I've been using mini-dinstall to maintain a small private repository (mostly with my custom-compiled kernels). You can add other things to it, but it wants a full source package with a .changes file, which means pretending to be a developer and building the package from source yourself. Regardless, though, the current infrastructure doesn't allow you to put Debian-standards-compliant software in .deb packages into a different part of the filesystem at all. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
