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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