On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > Why don't you debianize the package or create a fake one that provides the > > debian-package equivalent of what you locally installed ? > > Ah, I should have known there is a proper way to do this. This had briefly > occured to me, but I've never ever created a package... any pointers besides > www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/packaging.html ? Something more in HOWTO > style, perhaps?
AFAIK there are 2 packages that can help you to create debs: dh-make and debmake. For dh-make there is a tutorial at www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide. For debmake you can read the docs in /usr/doc/debmake. > However, these are developers' solutions - don't you think this should be > possible on the "user level"? But how do we define "user level" ? If you had installed the system and you are managing it, then you aren't a simple user anymore. Besides, creating a package is not so hard as it seems. > Or is there a script just to create such fakes? Have I just RT wrong FMs? The equivs package can help you to create these "provides-only" packages.
