How to : convinience package (or virtual package)
We need to know the following. How to create a virtual or convinience package for debian web site listing. For example a package called 'kdeedu' contains all the educational packages like khangman,kalzium etc. What they have done is kdeedu has dependencies on all the packages that constitute kdeedu itself. Is that how u create a virtual package?? Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
Re: How to : convinience package (or virtual package)
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:25:26PM -0800, tifr stud wrote: > We need to know the following. > How to create a virtual or convinience package for debian web site listing. > For example a package called 'kdeedu' contains all the educational packages > like khangman,kalzium etc. > What they have done is kdeedu has dependencies on all the packages that > constitute kdeedu itself. > Is that how u create a virtual package?? No, a virtual package is something different (and unrelated to the problem at hand). What might be of use to you is a package called 'equivs'. It's designed to help make packages that don't contain anything, but instead just have information (like a big pile of dependencies) in them to help pull in a bunch of other packages. - Matt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to : convinience package (or virtual package)
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:32:12PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > We need to know the following. > > How to create a virtual or convinience package for debian web site listing. > > For example a package called 'kdeedu' contains all the educational > > packages like khangman,kalzium etc. > > What they have done is kdeedu has dependencies on all the packages > > that constitute kdeedu itself. > > Is that how u create a virtual package?? > > No, a virtual package is something different (and unrelated to the problem > at hand). > > What might be of use to you is a package called 'equivs'. It's designed to > help make packages that don't contain anything, but instead just have > information (like a big pile of dependencies) in them to help pull in a > bunch of other packages. Also take a look at tasksel. Seems to be created for these purposes. regards fEnIo -- _ Bartosz Fenski | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp:0x13fefc40 | IRC:fEnIo _|_|_ 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - w. malopolskie - Polska (0 0) phone:+48602383548 | Slackware - the weakest link ooO--(_)--Ooo http://skawina.eu.org | JID:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | RLU:172001 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
