On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > What I don't like about apt/dselect is how they treat packages locally > compiled from source tarball. I couldn't find an option to really ignore > dependencies and do what I say. > > Specifically, if I want "esound-alsa" but have compiled the ALSA > drivers/libs/utils myself, neither dselect nor apt let me install it > because it depends on some ALSA packages. Now, there is a [Q] option > explained in the conflict resolution screen which should retain the exact > state I select - only it doesn't work as expected or even > deterministically. > > 1) It drops me back at conflict resolution, with its "suggestions" > selected again > 2) The main menu appears. If I select install, it wants to remove all of > gnome! > > Perhaps I could get the deb manually and install via dpkg and a few force > options, but that's hardly optimal... > > <whishlist> > > A package state that tells the package managers that "the functionality of > this package is provided locally, treat it as if it was installed"
Why don't you debianize the package or create a fake one that provides the debian-package equivalent of what you locally installed ?
