On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 02:58:38PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 04:43:06PM -0500, Ben Darnell wrote: > > No, that's not the problem: > > % cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/mesag3-glide2.shlibs > > libGL 1 libgl1 > > libGLU 1 libgl1 > > > > The package is correctly depending on libgl1 instead of mesag3-glide2. > > The problem is that linking against the mesag3-glide2 version of > > libGL.so.1 pulls in libvga.so.1, which causes the package to depend on > > svgalibg1. This is the behavior that I want to override. > > There is currently no convenient way to do that because of how > dpkg-shlibdeps calculates dependencies. For now just use the svgalib > dummy package and wait for woody. (Wichert says woody's dpkg will fix > this problem..)
And how do I do that? I can add "svgalibg1 | svgalib-dummyg1" to the control file, but that won't get rid of the svgalibg1 dependency added by dpkg-shlibdeps. -Ben -- Ben Darnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thoughtstream.org
