Re: hamm upgrade using dselect
On 24 Feb 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
> It looks like you use the dpkg-ftp backend? That backend *DOES* *NOT*
> handle predependencies correctly with dpkg --predep-package.
>
>
What exactly does dpkg --predep-package return? I haven't found
documentation on it yet. I would assume it returns a space separated list
of package names that must be installed next, until it returns nothing and
the Predependencies are all satisfied. I wouldn't want to write code
based on that assumption though.
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