Op ma, 10-01-2005 te 22:43 +0200, schreef George Danchev: > On Monday 10 January 2005 22:25, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Op ma, 10-01-2005 te 15:12 -0500, schreef William Ballard: > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:33:02PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > > dpkg -I on the resulting package and looking at the depends? > > > > > > But you don't expect to do that for other packages. > > > > You can also just run 'apt-get -f install' once the dependency breakage > > occurs. That's what it's for. > > This should be the last one should try, e.g. break the things with dpkg -i > and > then try to fix them with apt-get install -f, what if you have just broke > apt ... yes I know one can handle that, but why spending extra time in a-la > rpm hell [tm] situations, which could be avoided easily... The right way [tm] > is to place the resulting deb in a local apt repo and install & whatever from > there exploring the advantages of apt.
That's a possibility, but it's hardly 'the right way', IMO. Setting up a local package repository is a bit overkill IMHO. If installing a package with dpkg -i breaks apt, that means there's something fishy going on, and would warrant a bug report IMO, with its severity being at least 'important'. Apart from that... -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]