On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:30:26AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Sven Luther wrote: > > > BTW, it would be nice to have the short description shown in addition to > > the package name and version. > > > > Matthias Urlich suggested to me that a priority field or something such > > in the .dsc file could solve my problem. I am ready to implement this > > This is already done, but only for dependencies that are resolved > automatically.
Mmm, how do you specify the priorities ? > The command line has to specify a real package if there are > mutliple choices, that can't go away. Mmm, so there is no solution this way. Does this mean, that if i call the native package foo, and the bytecode package foo-bytecode or something such, and that foo-bytecode provides foo, then if i do an apt-get install foo, it will take the real package foo in preference over the virtual one, but take the virtual package if there is no real native package available ? If this is so, it solves my problem quite nicely. But then, is this behavior fixed, or may it be subject to change later on ? > > Also, i may be willing to look at the versioned virtual depends while i > > am at it also. Is there any material already available or a hint at a > > That needs to be implemented by dpkg first.. Ok, so i will be looking at the dpkg code then. Thanks for your help. Friendly, Sven Luther
