On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 19:33:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:45:42 -0500, Aubin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> ... which doesn't seem to depend on a 2.4 kernel. > >Don't even try to depend on a kernel-image package. So many people >custom compile their own kernels from scratch, that you can't possibly >require that a particular image be installed. So Debian doesn't have any special precautions for kernel capabilities? I could live with that and check in the preinst if an iptables-compatible kernel is installed. However, I would not be able to prevent a non-iptables-compatible kernel from being installed after my package has been installed, enabling the user to shoot themselves in the foot? Have there been policy-discussions to have kernel-capabilities Pseudopackages, and probably having iptables-compatible kernel debs Provides: kernelcap-iptables? >Do like the lsof-2.0.36 and lsof-2.2 packages do, and put the kernel >revision in the package name, tell people what they need in the >package description, and leave it up to them to satisfy that >dependency. Unsatisfying, but obviously currently the only way to do it. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
