I think the usual way is to create a 4th package which has no real files
to install, but just depends on the other three.
for example in gentoo the package kde simply has one operative line,
which is to depend on
~kde-base/kde{libs,base,addons,admin,artwork,edu,games,graphics,m
ultimedia,network,pim,toys,utils,accessibility}
i have seen this in other packaging systems too.
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:53:14 +1300
Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
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