On 2008-05-12, Mark Hobley <markhobley@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote:
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> I am using Debian. Is there a way to mark a package as manually
> installed in the package database? I want to manage some packages
> outside of the package management system, and I want to flag the
> packages as manually installed.
>
> I am replacing some core components marked as required (such as
> /bin/tar), and I want to mark the tar package and others as manually
> installed.
>
> (My versions are built using makefiles, and are not packaged for
> Debian.)
>
You can create debs and install them (maybe by using alien), or you can
use equivs.