On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:31:55PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Sunday 06 October 2002 12:19, Sjoerd wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I recently tried to make a package of dcron to replace cron: > > > > Package: dcron > > Architecture: any > > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} > > Recommends: exim | smail | sendmail | mail-transport-agent > > Conflicts: cron > > Provides: cron > > Replaces: cron > > ... > > > > However, this doesn't really work with logrotate for example, which depends > > on cron (>= 3.0pl1-53). I tried: > > > > ... > > Provides: cron 4.0.0 > > ... > > > > Because I thought it was the version number why it didn't work. How do I > > solve this? Is there a need for a virtual package cron? > > > > Sjoerd > > Provides can not provide a version (currently, may change some day). You can > ask for people to depend on cron | dcron. Although the question is now, why > a new cron??
Or fix versioned provides. But then i was told it is a dpkg issue. Friendly, Sven Luther