Re: [RFC] Debian skin for AIX
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:01:49PM -0600, Jor-el wrote:
> b. The AIX package database is called the ODM (sorry - you'll have to
> ask someone who knows, what it stands for) and contains details of files
> installed via the AIX installer. The dpkg database needs to be able to
> read that information and be capable of accepting AIX programs as
> an alternative to dependencies. For example, PERL is distributed as part
> of AIX proper and also as part of the toolbox. If there is a Debian
> package that depends on PERL, and if the AIX PERL is installed, then the
> Debian installer needs to recognize that the dependancy has been met.
Are you sure about that? AIX's perl package won't be configured with the
same include path as Debian's, so our perl-based packages are unlikely
to work with it.
I think it's safer to consider the Debian part of a system like this as
entirely independent.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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