Re: "fake" packages

2000-05-08 Thread Chris Wagner 
Just use "--force-depends".  It overrides package dependancies.

At 12:59 PM 5/7/00 -0600, elyograg wrote:
>How hard is it to create "fake" packages?  What I'm after is this:  A 
>package that will "lie" to the system with a "provides: httpd" line or 
>"provides: mail-transport-agent" or something similar.


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Re: "fake" packages

2000-05-07 Thread Alexander Reelsen 
Hi

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 12:59:43PM -0600, elyograg wrote:
> I would actually like to see a predefined set of packages like this -- call 
> them "liar-httpd" or something similar. :)
Seems you're searching for the equivs package.


MfG/Regards, Alexander

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Re: "fake" packages

2000-05-07 Thread Will Lowe 
> As long as I'm making wish lists, I had another idea... and I suppose I 
> could implement this in perl - have a way to rifle through available 
> packages and list everything that provides a certain function.  Very often 

try grep-available (in the grep-dctrl package). 

Will

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