Re: xlib6g/xpm4 fun
On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
> I needed to install the xpm libs out of Incoming. That was quite a challenge.
There was a problem in 3.4j-0.1 with xpm4g conlicting with xpm4.7 and
xpm4 providing xpm4.7 and depending on xpm4g, but that was corrected in
3.4j-0.2, uploaded yesterday. Some problems remain though...
> I had to use dpkg --auto-deconfigure to install the new xpm4 package in
> place of the xpm4.7 package - breaking a bunch of packages in the process
> (it conflicted even though xpm4 has a 'Provides: xpm4.7').
>
> I got the rest of the xpm packages to install (except for xpm-bin, below),
> and fvwm2 compiled cleanly. (whew)
>
> The I couldn't configure the packages that broke because they depended on
> xpm4.7 -- the xpm4 package has a 'Provides: xpm4.7', so I'm
> unsure why this is happening. Perhaps because the dependencies usually
> include a version number (ie. 'Depends: xpm4.7 (>= 3.4g-0)').
These are the problems I was talking about before... I don't know yet
how to provide a versioned xpm4.7 (I've been told Provides: xpm4.7 (3.4j-0.2)
doesn't work), and versioned dependencies are not fulfilled with
Provides: xpm4.7
Suggestions?
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental
Univ. de La Laguna
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