On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:35:49AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:08:17PM -0500, Clarence Risher wrote: > >> And that leads me to the general question, on the topic of > >> sometimes-dependencies. Does debian have any facility to handle such? > >> linux-image-2.6.18-1-486 doesnt technically depend on yaird, since it > >> can use any mkinitrd script (of which there are many, provided by other > >> packages), but when it does pick mkinitrd.yaird then it requires an up > >> to date version of yaird. > > > > Conflicts. The package doesn't depend on yaird, but it does (should) > > conflict with insufficient versions. > > You can also use > Depends: yarid (>= 1.2-3) | initramfs-tools | initrd-toos | foo | bar > > Any one of them will do but if yarid is used then the version must be > new enough.
Isn't there the possibility here that you have both yaird (< 1.2-3) and another suitable package installed? The deps would be met, but linux-image-* might choose yaird and build a non-working initramfs. (The initramfs generators don't conflict with each other.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
