Dummy Java packages creation [was: Re: Dependents on java runtime]
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 18:26, David Liontooth wrote:
> A number of recent packages in debian-amd64 depend variously on
> j2sdk1.5 (eg freewatch) and j2re1.4 (eg freemind) or java2-runtime (both),
> which are not available from the mirrors. I've installed Sun's now
> fully released jre-1_5_0-linux-amd64.bin. How do I tell these packages
> that java2-runtime is present? Force override? Java is in my path.
apt-get install equivs java-common
Then look into
gadek@gadek:~$ ls /usr/share/doc/java-common/dummy-packages/
java1-runtime-dummy.control java2-runtime-dummy.control
java-virtual-machine-dummy.control java2-compiler-dummy.control
java-compiler-dummy.control README
HTH
Grzegorz B. Prokopski
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