Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 08:46:49AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> >The policy says it chooses one at random, the implementation says it >> >chooses the first by default. >> > >> > >> >> Strange. I recall that sometimes it tells the user to specify the wanted >> package (among those alternatives) in the command-line. Am I wrong? > > Not sure, i don't remember exactly, but the behavior i describe > (choosing the first one) is the one implemented by the autobuilders, and > is why i do : ... > If you want to test it, just build a package that depends on spamoracle, > (or add a spurious spamoracle | spamoracle-byte dependency to one of > your packages) and try either and apt-get build-dep and/or building it > with pbuilder to see what happens.
I was not asking about autobuilders but dependencies of binary packages. If : Package: cameleon Depends: zoggy (>= x.y.z) | zoggy-byte (>= x.y.z) apt-get install cameleon will triger the installation of zoggy, right? It won't ask if I want zoggy or zoggy-byte? Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
