Re: Outside subsystem installed, packages unaware, dselect trying to help...
At 11:33 PM 05/19/2000 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: Any way to convince apt to just get the add-on tool? Greg -- ... YOW! I bet you rolled your own apache rather than installing one from a deb package and this is apt's way of telling you that it wants something that provides an httpd: by trying to install all of 'em. If this is the case, have a look at the equivs package. It allows you to install a fake package which can meet other packages' dependencies. BTW, I installed dhelp from potato, and it also provides an info browser function. It still needs an httpd, though. Dave, Yes, correct. Thanks a lot, will try it. I did this for several packages, (JDK, KSDK, Jserv, ..), so knowing about equiv is helpful! Is it best that Debian packages are parallel to all of these various outside universes? Or is there a way that a Debian package can just grab the lastest from SUn, and then note that you now have it? Greg
Re: Outside subsystem installed, packages unaware, dselect trying to help...
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:26:10AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: equiv is helpful! ^ --- this should be equivs Is it best that Debian packages are parallel to all of these various outside universes? Or is there a way that a Debian package can just grab the lastest from SUn, and then note that you now have it? I guess it depends upon how close you want to stay to the bleeding edge. For me, tracking the unstable distribution for packages which I am in keeps me close enough. Most of the Debian developers do a pretty good job of keeping up with the upstream releases, and if there's a lag it is frequently because there are difficulties in getting the package to work with the overall Debian distribution. In that case I am perfectly happy letting the developers get all of the kinks worked out. I suppose if you are the type who gets source straight out of CVS to compile it you could put something in your makefile to keep equivs happy. dt -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
