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

Issue with installing manually created Debian archive with APT

2021-07-31 Thread Hunter Wittenborn
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 process that my program previously used is running