Debian concordance

[John Skaller]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 16:55 +0200, Ante Karamatić wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 21:34 +1000, John Skaller wrote:
> 
> > Yes, but that's not what I want to do. I have a package manager,
> > I want it to install things. If I have to mess around building
> > a binary package by hand, then installing it .. I might as
> > well just download and build the original tarball.
> 
> You don't do it by hand. If you put Sid's deb-src sources in
> sources.list, only thing you have to do is:
> 
> apt-get build-dep <package-you-want-from-sid>
> apt-get -b source <package-you-want-from-sid>
> dpkg -i <package-you-want-from-sid>*.deb
> 
> That's it. Mostly, this will work. 

It will .. hehe .. look at this crap:

root at Rosella:/home/skaller # apt-get build-dep python2.4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ghc6 libreadline5-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  autoconf blt-dev emacs21 emacs21-bin-common emacs21-common
emacsen-common
  libbluetooth1 libbluetooth1-dev libbz2-dev libdb4.2-dev libgdbm-dev
  libreadline4-dev libssl-dev libungif4g sharutils xaw3dg
0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.8MB of archives.

Right .. so it is uninstalling Glasgow Haskell .. which is totally
unrelated to Python .. its downgrading my libreadline to from
version 5 to version 4 .. adding emacs (I use Vi .. I don't want
ANY emacs on my system ..)

I tried before to just build 'python' it failed, somehow
python2.4 wants to have python2.3 already installed and
named python2.3 .. arrggg .. building from the tarball
is just *easier* .. :)

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