Hello All, I need some help understanding how the busybox 'dpkg -i' command works. Specifically, I would like to know how the mechanism for checking debian package dependencies works. I'd like to know what essential files are needed to do the checking.
I've built a few packages and tried to install them. Those with dependencies are failing to install for some reason. Here is my scenario: I built a binary libc6-i386.deb package on my Debian host and installed it on another host which has nothing but a bare Linux 2.6.21.1 kernel and a static busybox 1.6.0 installed. I used the busybox 'dpkg' command to install the package. Everything went fine and the output of the 'dpkg -l' command is: Name Version +++-=============-============== ii libc6-i386 2.3.6 After this, I built a busybox package to re-install the full busybox implementation on to my target host. This package is dependent on libc6-i386 as can be seen from the 'dpkg --info' command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/packages$ dpkg --info busybox_1.6.0-1_i386.deb new debian package, version 2.0. size 233752 bytes: control archive= 619 bytes. 444 bytes, 12 lines control 258 bytes, 4 lines md5sums Package: busybox Version: 1.6.0-1 Section: unknown Priority: extra Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.3.5-1) Installed-Size: 436 Maintainer: Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Busybox UNIX command utilities. BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into \ a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the \ utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. When I try to install this package, it fails during the installation. This is the error I get: dpkg: package busybox depends on libc6-i386, which is not installed or flagged to be installed I cannot understand why I am getting this error, when clearly the libc6-i386 package is installed as you can see from the previous 'dpkg -l' output. In fact, the contents of the /var/lib/dpkg/status file are as follows: cat /var/lib/dpkg/status Package: libc6-i386 Version: 2.3.6 Section: libs Priority: required Architecture: i386 Maintainer: Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: The GNU C library The GNU C library is the standard C/C++ library \ needed to support most Linux applications. Status: install ok installed ---- Clearly, the libc6-i386 package is installed. Is there anything else that 'dpkg' checks other than this 'status' file to do the dependency check? Is it just a simple package name check, or is there more involved? Any insight you could provide will be greatly appreciated! I'm at my wit's end trying to get this to work. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
