Re: Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-03 Thread rbmj
On 03-Mar-13 01:51, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: This seems a fair use case. Note that if the symlink does not exist, a hierarchy of directories is created automatically by dpkg to accommodate the files, and the installation process will not explicitly fail. It doesn't fail - that's correc

Re: Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-02 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> On 02-Mar-13 14:23, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: >> So, no. C does not pre-depend on B unless it is explictly stated in its >> Pre-depends field. Here is an example: >> >> bash ==(Depends)==> base-files ==(Pre-Depends)==> awk. >> > > Thanks - that's what I suspected but it wasn't entirely cle

Re: Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-02 Thread rbmj
On 02-Mar-13 14:23, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: So, no. C does not pre-depend on B unless it is explictly stated in its Pre-depends field. Here is an example: bash ==(Depends)==> base-files ==(Pre-Depends)==> awk. Thanks - that's what I suspected but it wasn't entirely clear when I was

Re: Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-02 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> Hello everyone, > > One quick question: If package A pre-depends on package B, and package > C depends on package A, does package C pre-depend on package B? > > In other words, is pre-depends transitive across regular dependencies? C ==(Depends)==> A ==(Pre-Depends)==> B As you stated the prob

Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-02 Thread rbmj
Hello everyone, One quick question: If package A pre-depends on package B, and package C depends on package A, does package C pre-depend on package B? In other words, is pre-depends transitive across regular dependencies? Thanks, -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis