Dear mentors, in the course of playing with an experimental Build-Recommends field, I patched devscript's mk-build-deps package so that it translates them into Recommends dependancies, but unfortunately did not manage to get the recommended packages installed.
The reason is that mk-build-deps works by making an empty binary package with equivs, installs it with ‘dpkg --unpack’, and then runs apt-get to download the missing dependancies. By design, this does not work with recommended packages, to allow users to install packages without them. My problem is that I do not know any other way to install a binary package from the local system with its dependancies downloaded from the archives registered to apt. Does anybody know a better way than the mk-build-deps trick? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
