On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:02:36AM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote: > Is it OK to carefully modify /var/lib/dpkg/status?
It should be unnessecary. > doesn't work. Is there any way to modify deb packages to change their > dependencies since some of the packages are plain stupid... they depend on > perl for instance and I have perl5.005, so I end up doing a dpkg -i > --force-depends... which works, but if you go into dselect afterwards it They shouldn't depend on perl. If anything depends on Perl in Potato, that's a RC bug. You need to do a full upgrade to Potato for everything to work, though. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] now install and don't talk to me again! KDE stuff wouldn't > go > on because it wanted stdc++2.9, and it was too stupid to realize 2.10 was > newer... I had to force each and every kde package... it worked too, but I Um.. no. I don't know why it worked - you must have a copy of libstdc++2.9 somewhere around, but libstdc++2.10 is (a) not binary compatible with 2.9 and (b) wouldn't satisfy the runtime dependency of 2.9. Any program that depends on libstdc++2.9 without it installed should have failed to run, with a missing library dependency. If you still have anything about, do ldd on it, and it should show you where that erstz libstdc++2.9 is hiding. > it. Those of us customizing Debian to strange hardware need a bit more > freedom with this. > > Anyone...? If you need to modify dependencies, I mean really need to modify depenedencies, download the source and edit debian/control. In both your examples, there are better ways than hacking dependencies. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The hell that is supposed out there could be no worse than the hell that is sometimes seen in here.