Previously Jacob Meuser wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:16:22PM -0500, xsdg wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:13:23AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages > > > are installed?
Of course you can, but it is strongly advised not to do that. I suggest you look at the equivs package instead: Package: equivs Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 50 Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 2.0.2 Depends: perl | perl5, debhelper, dpkg-dev, devscripts, make, fakeroot Filename: pool/main/e/equivs/equivs_2.0.2_all.deb Size: 17394 MD5sum: 0c84d50f864ea181738fc1b496b6fb20 Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian packages, which only contain dependency information. . This way, you can make the Debian package management system believe that equivalents to packages on which other packages do depend on are actually installed. . Another possibility is creation of a meta package. When this package contains a dependency as "Depends: a, b, c", then installing this package will also select packages a, b and c. Instead of "Depends", you can also use "Recommends:" or "Suggests:" for less demanding dependency. . Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please note as well that using it is not the recommended way of dealing with broken dependencies. Better file a bug report instead. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
