Under Debian, how can I get a bunch of manually-provided packages to install automatically?
I've got three packages (that came from unstable, and have no outstanding dependencies except for themselves) I'd like to install on a system (stable), as well as take a few extra config steps after they're in. My first thought was to create a package containing the .debs, and to call dpkg -i from in postinst ... but that errors, being unable to lock the package database, because it was itself being installed at the time :-) I suppose I could just install all four in order, but that doesn't sound too elegant. I could also create my own package source hierarchy (anyone got a decent reference for how to do that) and make them depend on each other properly, and just install the meta-package, which should automatically pull in the others ... Or I could extract all the packages files into the meta-package, which doesn't sound too good because I loose the ability to upgrade them separately ... Any clues/ideas? -jim
