Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:19:49PM -0700, Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > >> Manually installed packages have status "i " while automatically > >> installed ones have "i A". > > > > They have a "c" next to them. > > So what you did is you removed the Debian package and then ran "make > install", right? > > In that case the package tools are completely unaware that you've done > anything. As long as you installed into /usr/local/, that's fine. If > you installed any files outside /usr/local, /opt and /home, you should > uninstall the software and reinstall it into one of those directories; > otherwise you risk having the package system stomp on what you've done. > > And to answer your original question: you don't need to tell aptitude > anything. As far as it's concerned, those packages aren't installed at > all.
... Which strikes me as a dim idea. He does need to tell aptitude something. If they were installed outside the pkg mgmt system, you'd like it to know that, especially wrt dependencies. Aptitude: Installing php; need apache ... "What? But apache's in /usr/local!" In some way, aptitude should be made aware of that fact. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
