Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 22-06-2005 22:15, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > >>>Back in the woody days, we used to have the education-packages depend >>>upon the various packages we wanted to include in the installation. >>>Then, when we started to release our packages into the sarge repository, >>>and there were depends, these depends blocked other packages from >>>entering testing, because of conflicts. >>>Therefor, Joey did a bit of rewriting, so that we recomended other >>>packages, and that solved the conflicts. >>>Now, since sarge is stable, there wont be new packages added or removed, >>>and also since our new packages wont go into sarge, we can use depends >>>instead of recommends, and that may solve some of the trouble with >>>upgrades. Maybe not from woody installations, but for those who are >>>putting prerelease of Sarge into production in a couple of months >>>without proper support. > > Is this a problem when using aptitude? > If so, is the reason perhaps that the aptitude is configured to not > respect "recommends"? If so, upgrade instructions could say to use > "aptitude --with-recommends" to override local preference while upgrading.
Will it force replacement if there is a conflict with already installed packages ? -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/ Debian-edu developer and PreRelease Manager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
