Essential virtual packages

2000-08-19 Thread Glenn McGrath
Im trying to understand a few things relating to packaging... take the kernel for example I just did a fresh install of potato, and then installed my own kernel image built by kernel-package, dselect lists my custom kernel as being the only kernel-image installed, i cant see any reference to the

Re: Essential virtual packages

2000-08-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 04:16:08PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: Im trying to understand a few things relating to packaging... take the kernel for example I just did a fresh install of potato, and then installed my own kernel image built by kernel-package, dselect lists my custom kernel as

Re: Essential virtual packages

2000-08-19 Thread Glenn McGrath
Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 04:16:08PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: Im trying to understand a few things relating to packaging... take the kernel for example snip I cant find any details on the virtual package kernel-image except its name, do virtual packages have

Re: Essential virtual packages

2000-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cant find any details on the virtual package kernel-image except its name, do virtual packages have priorities and can they be marked essential ? Virtual packages are called that because they are just names that are provided by other packages. The packages