Re: fake packages
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. +---+ |-=I T ' S P R I N C I P L E T H A T C O U N T S=- | |=- -=ALAN KEYES FOR PRESIDENT=- -=| | Balanced Budgets Personal Freedoms Morality Lower Tax | |=-- http://www.Keyes2000.com. --=| ++
fake packages
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. The idea is to be able to install from-source packages, and have Debian install other packages that depend on that major component - like weblog analyzers, which will only install if you have a webserver installed. I'd rather not install a tiny implementation of the subsystem, like dhttpd, and then disable it, just so I can get the system to think it has a webserver installed. I would actually like to see a predefined set of packages like this -- call them liar-httpd or something similar. :) 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 I'm wondering what kind of alternatives are available, and sometimes the only real choice you have for finding them is to just scroll through all 4700 packages in the current potato list. Thanks, Shawn
Re: fake packages
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 -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| --
Re: fake packages
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 -- Alexander Reelsen http://joker.rhwd.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG: pub 1024D/F0D7313C sub 2048g/6AA2EDDB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7D44 F4E3 1993 FDDF 552E 7C88 EE9C CBD1 F0D7 313C Securing Debian:http://joker.rhwd.de/doc/Securing-Debian-HOWTO
