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Re: ITP: auto-apt (automatic apt-get)



At Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:25:51 -0700,
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:
> >  auto-apt checks file access of programs running within auto-apt
> >  environments, and if the program try to access a file of uninstalled
> >  package, auto-apt will install the package containing the file,
> >  by using apt-get.
> 
> Beautiful. I had a glimmer of an idea about this a year ago, and never
> did anything. Are you LD_PRELOADing it?

Yes.
 
> Whgat are you doing if two packages contain a requested file?

Currently, auto-apt simply install 1st package for the same file
in Contents-$ARCH.gz. (auto-apt database created like this)

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI



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