Re: installing a fake package

[Jeff Johnson]

Adding a package stub is the only way with the rpm used by OpenPKG. rpm-4.4.3 and later permits dependencies to be satisfied by adding to /etc/rpm/sysinfo. Backporting to the rpm used by OpenPkg is feasible, so is upgrading. 73 de Jeff On Aug 30, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Doug Henry wrote: So it looks like what I am doing now (removing the build and install stuff from the spec file) is the way to do it.  I thought standard rpm had an inject option which would let you put a package in the database without actually having a package, but I haven't been able to find that option under openpkg. -thanks On 8/28/06, Doug Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doug Henry wrote: > Is there a mechanism to fake the installation of a package?  For > example, under IRIX the perl package will not compile (as provided) > using gcc.  The system perl seems to work just fine for the packages I > have tried requiring perl, so the ability to make openpkg think it has > perl installed would be very helpful. > > > -thanks > In the past I did this on AIX by hacking the .spec and removing all of the build/install entries, basically creating an empty package. Didn't help much when it was time to upgrade though. Doug ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project                                     www.openpkg.org User Communication List                      openpkg-users@openpkg.org