Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | Sounds like you want a dpkg mode where you can pre-depend on a prior
> | version of your own package, and _not_ delete files that are shipped by
> | the base package that are not shipped by the 'delta deb'. Because of
> | this pre-dependency, you would not be able to install this deb as a new
> | install, it would have to be an upgrade.
> Something like:
> Package: huge-dataset
> Depends: huge-dataset-base-2010-09-01, huge-dataset-patch-2010-09-10, huge-dataset-patch-2010-09-20, huge-dataset-patch-2010-09-30
> And then have huge-dataset set up the data set and patch it as new
> versions are installed?
that sounds in line with what I thought. Peter's suggestion seems to be
a bit different
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