Re: debmake & dpkg
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
richr >> - automatically locate packages when just a packagename is given
richr >> (invoke ftp or whatever means configured to get the package)
richr >
richr >Wouldn't this require a lookup somewhere to find out where to get
richr >the file? Where should this information be stored and how will
richr >it be managed?
I do not know. These are ideas and have to be made concrete.
richr >> - automatically install packages depended on by a package
richr >
richr >This should be an option. Some people run stuff in /usr/local
richr >instead of .debs. We should be able to force an install without
richr >automatically installing dependency packages if we want.
richr >
richr >Although I don't know what depends on it, I am still running the
richr >upstream ypbind. Probably not a good example, but you get the
richr >point.
Might dpkg need an option to tell it that a package is locally provided?
i.e. do
dpkg --local-package ypbind
and thus all dependencies on ypbind are satisfied without consulting the
database?
richr >
richr >FWIW, it all sounds good to me. I wonder how much of this is
richr >related to the work Dale is doing on the dselect backend
richr >interface?
I think dselect and dpkg need to be two different packages. Perhaps we can
make the dpkg-library a third?
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