On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:10:35AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >> Why again did you want a new dpkg? > > > > Mostly to see if I could get libstdc++2.10-dev to install without > > complaining about libc6-dev not being installed. libc0.2-dev appears to > > have libc6-dev in the 'provides' line, so I figured it was probably a bug > > in dpkg. > > That's the spirit Jeff! unfortunately, no released dpkg gets it right. > The problem is that it is a versioned dependency (>= 2.something), > and this can't be fulfilled with an unversioned provides in current > dpkgs. We have to wait. (Or help Ben fixing it).
Hmmm. It's sort of tangential to my current task, so I think that I won't do this now. Maybe after I magically fix the networking problem. =) > > It's not a big deal. What I do now is dpkg -i g++*dev libstdc++*dev for > > the duration of any compile, and then remove them after if I need to do > > any further upgrades. > > You can add a dummy package entry for libc6-dev with a proper > Version line in /var/lib/dpkg/status (The package equivs is > intended to automate such pseudo packages). Thanks for the tip. It appears to be happy now - dpkg even recovered nicely with "dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libc6-dev' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed." Back to hacking, thanks! -- Anyone who sais "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" has never had a dictionary thrown at him.
