[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonas Steverud) wrote: >Phoenix Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Jonas wrote: >> > Have a look at the equivs package. The other programs should find >> > your programs as long as you have them in the $PATH. >> >> For anyone who's interested, I took this route since it would solve >> the problem once and for all. > >The only problem with this is dselect will tell you the packages made >by equivs are obsolete - but I maybe did some wrong when I deleted the >.debs? Anyone who knows?
Obsolete/local, strictly: it's the "local" bit that's relevant to you. You can safely ignore this, but if you recreate the .debs and run 'dpkg -A package.deb' then I believe they'll be recorded in the available file and therefore not listed as local. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
