On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:05:56PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:00:31AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > > I want to install package "X", does the "X" .deb contain the > > dependency information, or is there a list on my system somewhere? If > > Yes.
What do you mean? Yes, the X.deb contains the info? Or yes, there is a list? Or both? I think it is actually both. You don't have to download a package in order to know what its dependencies are, so this info must be on some list. I assume that is the Packages.gz file that you download when you do an (apt-get|aptitude) update. But the dependencies for package X are also listed in X.deb. What happens if something goes wrong and there is a conflict between the info in the list and in X.deb. For example, I did some very minor tweaking to zope-mysqlda. According to the list this package depends on zope. According to my zope-mysqlda.deb it depends on zope2.7. On my home computer apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't complain. On a server I administer with the same setup regarding to these packages it wants to install zope. I know my tweaking should be done better, but what would be considered the authorative source regarding to this dependency? The list? Or the actual zope-mysqlda package? I think the package. Any thoughts? -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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