-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Santiago Vila Doncel, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >On 4 Dec 1997, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: >> Hmm. A thought as I spell-checked this. Can you pre-depend and depend >> on the same package? perl's control will now look like: >> ... >> Pre-Depends: perl-base (>=5.004.04-2) >> Depends: perl-base (=${Source-Version}) >> ... > >This way, dpkg will refuse to install perl until perl-base >= 5.004.04-2 >is installed and configured, but since the only perl-base >version compatible with perl is exactly ${Source-Version}, it will have >to install and configure that version, perl-base ${Source-Version}. > >Does > >Pre-Depends: perl-base (=${Source-Version}) > >not have the same effect?
Not if I'm interpreting the dependencies correctly. In your version, every time perl is upgraded, perl-base (for that version) must be installed and configured before we can upgrade perl. I think that takes two separate invocations of dselect. (warning: I don't use dselect) With my version, you only have to have perl-base installed and configured if there is a danger of Perl not being there, i.e. before 5.004.04-2. Any other time (5.004.04-3+), perl-base just needs to be installed, not necessarily configured. This way folks have to exit and re-enter dselect fewer times. Darren - -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.daft.com/~torin> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-800-921-4996 @ Sysadmin, webweaver, postmaster for hire. C/Perl/CGI programmer and tutor. @ @ Make a little hot-tub in your soul. @ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBNIhAwo4wrq++1Ls5AQHhaAQAoeHvxMv5jmFhBtg8iQ5EGjJcGiRfjLCX iFACPrrPY5ZZn4khUHkSnNscuW51u3t8NTvfu/UD/HTtYr1mNtaAF4CyXWquV+mN qCHB4i8/ckGu6NMkL+dyLZ1cFmNzJRhMilB2/KL/TDnzu38Glztg7HzFP2PwFisv 9jIRRVbLCZw= =ynHj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .