distro installs

[Len Ovens]

On Fri, November 18, 2011 11:36 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 22:14 -0800, Len Ovens wrote:
>> Can a dummy package be made that makes it look like they are
>> installed? There must be a proper way of doing this.
>
> # equivs-control <package name>
> # gedit <package name>
> # equivs-build <package name>
> # dpkg -i <package name...deb>
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html

So, from looking at the docs at the link, it would seem that the two extra
packages need to have their "provides" lines checked to make sure it
satisfies anything the normal packages provide and then just not ship or
select the normal packages.

That sounds too simple to be true ;-)  Next question becomes are the
"normal" packages separate? or are they included as part of another
package we also need? Is there a way of not installing a part of a
package? Or is it easier to just do a second install process that forces a
writeover. I have had an install that wants to remove not only the depend,
but everything that depends on it including software I want to use.
Synaptic is pretty smart.....

Anyway, it would be best not to have to maintain a US specific package
that is the same as another package just to change two files...

Len


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