Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?
- From: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:49:46 +0300
Aniruddha wrote:
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:41 -0400, Hubert Chathi wrote:If 3rd party deb doesn't contain 'Replaces' field, dpkg will refuse any try to break any
No, they can't. Not without your expressed consent...[...]
They can't, if they just use the normal Debian archive contents.
However, packages can do all sorts of things via installation scripts.
Then again, the package could hide all sorts of things. (Think:
trojaned binary.) If you don't trust your package source, you shouldn't
install their packages.
I'm not worried about a malicious packages. I am more concerned that a
3rd party deb damages the system by mistake.
By default I install all 3rd party binary and source packages in a
~/programs folder. That way I don't have to worry about fubaring my
system.
I like to do something like that for deb packages too. Who knows a good
solution?
file owned by existing packages.
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer.
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