On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 07:50 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote: […] > Yeah that's the other way to do it: build your own .deb's, and create an > apt repository on dlang.org (or somewhere), then publish the repository > URL. Then users can simply add the URL to /etc/apt/sources.list, and > they will be able to use apt-get/aptitude to directly download and > install it. You can even include a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d in > your .deb, so that once users install it the first time, the next > package upgrade will automatically pull any new versions from dlang.org. > > As an example, this is what Opera does.
Use of /etc/apt/sources.list.d turns out to be anathema to those of use who use approx. Having a D apt repository remains a good move. In fact isn't there one already? It's contents could be widened to include all deb from D stuff. (Except I haven't actually been able to make it work :-( -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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