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Could you clarify the technical details a bit more?

I'm just wondering how I can build ros-fuerte from source again boost 1.49.0? [..] I just want to use some of the manually installed packages, instead of the default ones grabbed from the repository.

Does this mean you want to build all of ROS from source, but not its dependencies, or do you want to build some ROS packages from source (to be able to build them with boost 1.49)?

In case you want to build all of ROS from source:

I'm not sure about compatibility of Fuerte with Boost 1.49, but for the Ubuntu/Debian side you could look into equivs. This would allow you to create a meta-package with which you could trick apt into thinking that the prerequisites have been installed.

This is somewhat of an 'advanced' technique though, as you can create some pretty interesting apt conflicts this way, but might offer you a way around the strict dependencies.

Could you clarify the technical details a bit more?

I'm just wondering how I can build ros-fuerte from source again boost 1.49.0? [..] I just want to use some of the manually installed packages, instead of the default ones grabbed from the repository.

Does this mean you want to build all all of ROS from source, but not its dependencies, or do you want to build some ROS packages from source (to be able to build them with boost 1.49)?

In case you want to build all of ROS from source:source, but satisfy some of the dependencies with locally installed packages /source (which are not present in apt's database):

I'm not sure about compatibility of Fuerte with Boost 1.49, but for the Ubuntu/Debian side you could look into equivs. This would allow you to create a meta-package with which you could trick apt into thinking that the prerequisites have been installed.

This is somewhat of an 'advanced' technique though, as you can create some pretty interesting apt conflicts this way, but might offer you a way around the strict dependencies.