On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:05:27AM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:09:04AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:49:57PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > > It would be useful to know how to do this in the more general case, > > > where there isn't a convenient command like make-kpkg. > > > > > > My particular case is X 4.2.0, which I downloaded the source of and > > > compiled for slink, then for woody when I upgraded. But of course > > > woody's packaging system doesn't realise it's there and keeps wanting > > > to pull in bits of the woody X. > > > > > > No doubt the "Debian way" to fix this would be to get the X 4.2.1 > > > source package from testing and build that. But I'm on dialup, and the > > > idea of re-downloading 100Mb or so compares poorly with that of > > > editing a few files to achieve the same result. > > > > No, the debian way is to do one of the following: > > > > 1) download the diff and dsc file, apply to your source, build debian > > package. > > The testing X is 4.2.1 (isn't it?) but mine is 4.2.0, so surely this > won't work? Unless none of the files that the diff applies to have > changed between 4.2.0 and 4.2.1, and possibly not even then.
Well, for many packages the diff will work, perhaps with some manual jiggereing. I never said it would be _easy_ :-) > > 2) use the "equivs" package. It claimns it is a hack (and it is) but > > it works as long as you have a clue. You can really break your > > system with it if you do not :-) > > That looks like the sort of thing I'm looking for. I'll play safe, and > back up /var and /etc before I play with it! I'm sure you'll be able to figure it out. Basically it would be a bad idea to use equivs to remove libc6 or something. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
