On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:19:40AM +1000, Alexander Zangerl wrote: > On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:54:28 +0100, Robert Millan writes: > >On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:35:44PM +1000, Alexander Zangerl wrote: > >> > >> * emulating the build-depends by using depends: for tun-source > >> doesn't work: "depends: blabla [freebsd]" is not supported by dpkg, > >> that works only for build-dependencies. > > > >Actualy it does, but not for binary-indep packages. We could fix dpkg > >though. I might get into > >that later. > > ah, interesting; my copy of the policy (3.6.1.1, section 7.1) says > that this is only available for build-time stuff. the package > building tools didn't accept the control file with arch-specifics > in the depends: field when i tried, but it's not unlikely that > i've made some mistake there.
Did you try on binary-arch packages? > but coming back to the main point: the only /real/ fix that i can > see would be to have the kernel module building environment check > build-dependencies for modules. any hackery on the outside -source > package is going to be exactly that, an ugly brittle hack. Why can't you add them to the kernel module's build-depends? I recall the debian/control file was shared and autogenerated or something, but nothing stops you from changing that. -- .''`. Proudly running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD unstable/unreleased (on UFS2+S) : :' : `. `' http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
