On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 04:44:37PM +0100, Koblinger Egmont wrote: > Currently if more unconfigured packages are being configured, their > ordered is determined by the Depends fields of the packages, however, the > Essential field is not taken into account,
That's correct. As far as dpkg is concerned the Essential field just means "do not remove this package". > This behaviour is against the policy that AFAIK essential packages > required by a certain package do not need to be explicitely mentioned in > the Depends field. That's also correct. This is achieved by ensuring that Essential: yes packages don't need to be configured to be functional. > On a dpkg based (but not Debian) system I have a script that builds up a > chroot system: You'll need to either specify dependencies explicitly, or do as Debian does and ensure that Essential: yes packages work even without being configured. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review! -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/copyright/digitalagenda
