On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:29:46PM +0100, David Given wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 16:56, Zeno Davatz wrote: > [...] > > Why do the dependency-manager not know that I already got apache-ssl > > installed. I wrote in my control file that apache-ssl-ywesee replaces > > apache, apache-common, apache-ssl > > All Replaces: does is ensure that if you install apache-ssl-ywesee, then > apache, apache-common and apache-ssl are removed. What you want is to > add: > > Provides: apache, apache-common, apache-ssl > > This will tell the package manager that apache-ssl-ywesee has the same > functionality as the named packages, so that any dependency that relies > on one can depend on apache-ssl-ywesee instead.
Mmm, is Provides a superset of Replaces, or do you have to specify both ? Friendly, Sven Luther
