Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid>:
> I demand that Bill Marcum may or may not have written...
>
> > On 2008-05-12, Mark Hobley <markhobley@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> >> 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.
>
> Add some deb-src lines to your sources.list, update, install devscripts &
> debhelper, "apt-get source $PKG", apply your changes, modify debian/changelog
> (for the version number, mainly) "apt-get build-dep $PKG", "debuild binary",
> install, mark as held.

Piece of pie. Easy as cake. :-P

I'd suggest hanging out in debian-mentors for a few years. It's what
I've been trying to do.


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