Re: How to specify complicated dependency?

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org> wrote:
>On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org> wrote:
>> >((apache || apache-ssl) && libapache-mod-perl) || apache-perl
>> >
>> >How can I specify this in the depends field?
>> 
>> apache-perl provides httpd and libapache-mod-perl, and apache and
>> apache-ssl both provide httpd, so this simplifies to:
>> 
>>   Depends: httpd, libapache-mod-perl
>
>Hmmm, I thought I'd tried that already.
>
>No wait, I remember why I didn't.  I specifically need the web server to
>be apache.  (boa, roxen etc. also provide httpd.)  perhaps the apache
>variants should provide the virtual package apache too?
>
>Then again maybe the mod-perl dependency will filter out all but apache
>variants.

Oh, right, I see what you mean. apache-perl also provides apache (though
apache-ssl doesn't, for some reason), so you might try something like
this?

  Depends: apache | apache-ssl, libapache-mod-perl

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Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]