On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:32:47AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: | > $ apt-cache show equivs | > Package: equivs | > 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.
| I tried equivs once to build dummy packages for java but gave up.
Not necessary for java :
$ apt-cache show java-virtual-machine-dummy
Package: java-virtual-machine-dummy
Architecture: all
Provides: java-virtual-machine
Depends: java-common
Description: Dummy Java virtual machine
This package is only to respect the dependencies rules.
Install it only if you have a real Java virtual machine.
If you follow the equivs readme (and if you can read the above
'apt-cache' info - it's the same format as the "control" file) then
should have no trouble building a dummy package with whatever provides
and depends you want. I am using it to keep an old libstdc++
installed which a commercial binary-only program needs. (I once
removed that lib because nothing depended on it. Oops.)
HTH,
-D
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