On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 21:57 -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > What would be the impact on (c)debootstrap of changing the operation > of dpkg? > Forget the impact on debootstrap, the impact on APT and dselect is pretty huge. dpkg is designed to be able to unpack packages while their dependencies are not yet fulfilled.
What's interesting is nobody has jumped in on this thread to point out
that dpkg *has* a dependency field for forcing checking of dependencies
before the package is unpacked.
Pre-Depends
What William Ballard, Cameron Hutchinson and Eduard Bloch are asking for
is to remove the difference between Depends and Pre-Depends and make all
Depends behave like Pre-Depends.
You can come out from behind the sofa now.
descent tmp# dpkg -i banana_2.0.all.deb
dpkg: regarding banana_2.0.all.deb containing banana, pre-dependency
problem:
banana pre-depends on icecream
icecream is not installed.
dpkg: error processing banana_2.0.all.deb (--install):
pre-dependency problem - not installing banana
Errors were encountered while processing:
banana_2.0.all.deb
zsh: exit 1 dpkg -i banana_2.0.all.deb
descent tmp# cat /banana
This is banana 1.0.
descent tmp#
Scott
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