On Thursday 05 February 2004 8:43 pm, Rob Weir wrote:
> If you build things from source, dpkg won't be aware of them, therefore
> apt will try to install them if something depends on them.
Hrm apt-get install checkinstall. It won't track dependencies but will make
a .deb, .rpm or slackTGZ from the
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:43:08PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +, cyril said
> > Hi
> >
> > as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on
> > handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be
> > aware of
> >>If you build things from source, dpkg won't be aware of them, therefore
> >>apt will try to install them if something depends on them.
> >
> > From my (limited) experience with Gentoo I think it's possible to
> > install something from source and tell emerge about it, so it won't try
> > and i
Dave Thorn wrote:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:43:08PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +, cyril said
as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on
handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be
aware of if I c
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:43:08PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +, cyril said
> > as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on
> > handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be
> > aware of if I choose
Thanks for the advice Rob
> Why? The Debian versions of apache and php include all known security
> fixes, and pretty much all available modules.
Well, I have had some problems with php 4.1.1 as supplied by Debian. There are
some issues with the way this version handles certain things that I ca
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +, cyril said
> Hi
>
> as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on
> handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be
> aware of if I choose to build some software from source on a stable Debian
> e
Hi
as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on
handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be
aware of if I choose to build some software from source on a stable Debian
environment. For example I usually choose to build php / apache fr
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