Re: Howto create dummy package
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:59:29 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 05:54:15PM +0100, Michael Weber wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:50:58 -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote:
>> > Quick question: How does one go about creating an empty dummy package
>> > that depends upon other packages? Thanks.
>>
>> Package: equivs
>> Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies
>> This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian
>> packages, which only contain dependency information.
>
>Doesn't this do the opposite of what Daniel needs?
equivs can be used for both. I have
- an equivs package mail-transport-agent which Provides:
mail-transport-agent for systems that have a self-compiled MTA
- an equivs package webrt-dependenceies which Depends: libmime-perl to
remind me that I better not uninstall libmime-perl if I want webrt
still to work.
Basically, equivs takes a generic control file and builds a package
from that.
Greetings
Marc
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