Re: dpkg-statoverride question

2001-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 05:44:38PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:38:14 -0200 > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > > > My package (avrprog) uses dpkg-statoverride in the postinst script. > > >

Re: dpkg-statoverride question

2001-11-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> if I am not misunderstanding anything, no package needs to depend on > dpkg as it is part of base am I wrong? (of course a versioned dependency > is in order...) > close. No package needs to declare a depends on anything marked 'Essential', these just happen to be in base. But so are many oth

Re: dpkg-statoverride question

2001-11-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:38:14 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > > My package (avrprog) uses dpkg-statoverride in the postinst script. > > Should I put a pre-depends on dpkg? > > No. A simple versioned depends is eno

Re: dpkg-statoverride question

2001-11-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:35:48AM -0200, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > Hi Mentors, > > My package (avrprog) uses dpkg-statoverride in the postinst script. > Should I put a pre-depends on dpkg? Please be certain that you are using it correctly; you should be vary careful about doing anything m

Re: dpkg-statoverride question

2001-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 05:44:38PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:38:14 -0200 > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > > > My package (avrprog) uses dpkg-statoverride in the postinst script. > > >

Re: dpkg-statoverride question

2001-11-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> if I am not misunderstanding anything, no package needs to depend on > dpkg as it is part of base am I wrong? (of course a versioned dependency > is in order...) > close. No package needs to declare a depends on anything marked 'Essential', these just happen to be in base. But so are many ot

Re: dpkg-statoverride question

2001-11-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:38:14 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > > My package (avrprog) uses dpkg-statoverride in the postinst script. > > Should I put a pre-depends on dpkg? > > No. A simple versioned depends is en

Re: dpkg-statoverride question

2001-11-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:35:48AM -0200, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > Hi Mentors, > > My package (avrprog) uses dpkg-statoverride in the postinst script. > Should I put a pre-depends on dpkg? Please be certain that you are using it correctly; you should be vary careful about doing anything

Re: dpkg-statoverride question

2001-11-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > My package (avrprog) uses dpkg-statoverride in the postinst script. > Should I put a pre-depends on dpkg? No. A simple versioned depends is enough. You only need pre-depends when you use a package's programs in preinst. -- "One disk to rule

Re: dpkg-statoverride question

2001-11-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > My package (avrprog) uses dpkg-statoverride in the postinst script. > Should I put a pre-depends on dpkg? No. A simple versioned depends is enough. You only need pre-depends when you use a package's programs in preinst. -- "One disk to rul