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Re: How to handle libssl support?



Em Qui, 2004-11-11 às 13:17 -0500, Daniel Burrows escreveu:
> On Thursday 11 November 2004 10:45 am, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > It is not necessary. Look at fetchmail, for instance:
> > Replaces: popclient, fetchmail-ssl, fetchmail-common
> > Provides: popclient, fetchmail-ssl, fetchmail-common
> > Conflicts: popclient, fetchmail-ssl, fetchmail-common, logcheck (<<
> > 1.1.1-9)
> >
> > I don't know and didn't check for the others *-ssl packages, though.
> 
>   Yes, but if you have fetchmail-ssl installed and not fetchmail, an upgrade 
> will not install fetchmail.  It might result in fetchmail-ssl being removed 
> (since the new fetchmail-common doesn't provide the version it needs), but 
> unless some other part of the system depends on fetchmail, you won't end up 
> with fetchmail installed.

I'm not sure about this. Wouldn't the Provides: fetchmail-ssl on
fetchmail satisfy fetchmail-common's relationship needs when upgrading
and, thus, be selected for instalation?

Thanks,

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