Re: Building debs: Interesting inter-dependency conundrum.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am building a couple of packages that I want to be installed (one
> installed new and one upgraded actually) on a Debian Woody system. The
> packages have interesting inter-dependencies and I am not sure how to
> set the flags in their respective control files to reflect this.
>
> Let's call the two packages "eh" and "bee".
>
> A prior version of "eh" will be present on the system being upgraded so
> the process to get the two packages on there will be to perform a
> dist-upgrade to bring in the updated version of "eh" and a brand new
> package, "bee".
>
> This much I know: I need to set "Depends: bee" in "eh"'s control file
> to have the brand new "bee" package installed during the upgrade of
> "eh".
>
> But the twist is that "eh" needs to be configured (I don't care what
> order they are unpacked in) prior to "bee" because "eh"('s postinst)
> does work that needs to be done before "bee"'s configuration/postinst
> can be done.
Split the packages.
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