Re: Issue with installing manually created Debian archive with APT

2021-08-01 Thread Hunter Wittenborn
> why are you attempting to create the .deb yourself, instead of using Debian > tooling. Can't you simply build dpkg under Arch and try to use it directly? I *can* in fact already do that, as dpkg is already packaged and inside Arch Linux's repositories [1]. The reason I'm wanting to do it

Re: Issue with installing manually created Debian archive with APT

2021-08-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 04:20:25PM -0500, Hunter Wittenborn wrote: > When I try installing the packages my program builds (with 'apt install > ./debname.deb'), it works fine. But if I then try to reinstall the package > (with 'apt reinstall ./debname.deb'), this error keeps popping up for some

Re: Issue with installing manually created Debian archive with APT

2021-08-01 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 7/31/21 11:20 PM, Hunter Wittenborn wrote: > I'm working on a project that [1] that aims to bring the PKGBUILD format > used on Arch Linux to Debian. That's besides the point though, and it's > mainly just to help showcase what I'm doing brought me to my current issue. > > Anyway, part of the