Recommended way to deal with locally-compiled apps

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 07.01.2005, 18:08 +1000 schrieb CB:
> How do you guys deal with apps you choose to compile and/or install 
> yourself? (particularly where there are ubuntu packages available but 
> you want/need a more recent version).
> 
> Is there a standard place to put them, good practise to avoid conflicts 
> with packaged stuff, etc?
when i started with debian based systems i found deb-make [1] a very
helpful tool.... you run it in the source tree of your unpacked tar.gz,
it creates a debian directory there....you edit debian/changelog,
debian/control and run "fakeroot debian/rules binary" in the head of the
source tree, which builds a .deb package in the dir above...
install it with dpkg -i and let apt care for the rest ;)

(it surely isnt producing a real clean debian package this way, but at
least you got the benefits of the package system for your selfcompiled
software and its quite easy)

ciao
	oli

[1] install the packages: debmake and fakeroot for that

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