Re: dselect access methods
Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com> writes:
> I have been testing cd_autoup.sh and preparing its README
> for upgradng to slink.
>
> I have noted that when the "mounted" access method is used,
> the first step under [I]nstall is to install any packages that
> are Pre-Depends for a selected package. This is very helpful.
> Do any other access methods provide this feature?
dpkg-mountable does, using "dpkg --predep-package" (which, last time I
looked, was the way the "mounted" method also did it). Unfortunately,
when I tried testing this, I couldn't get it to reliably indicate
packages for which this is true, nor could I find any documentation on
this switch so I knew what it was meant to do!
But yes, in theory, dpkg-mountable supports this.
Andy
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