[Fwd: Re: Installing Packages From Source]

I accidentally replied to the sender and not the list.

Jeff

• Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Installing Packages From Source Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:40:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Grossman <jeff@stikman.com> To: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:23:29 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote:
>> There are a few packages that I install directly from source onto my
>> system. On Aptitude I noticed the markauto option. Should I let
>> aptitude
>> know that I have installed those packages manually?
>
> That should not be necessary; aptitude assumes "manually" anyway for
> packages which it did not install itself.
>
>> The packages that I have installed by source are:
>>
>> MIMEDefang
>> Dovecot
>> SpamAssassin
>
> You can check what aptitude thinks about them:
>
> aptitude search spamassassin dovecot mimedefang
>
> Manually installed packages have status "i " while automatically
> installed ones have "i A".

They have a "c" next to them.

Jeff

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