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Re: website dpkg



On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:04:38PM -0500, Tim Wolgemuth wrote:
> I am trying to design a dpkg that installs a website.  I have made a 
> Makefile that will copy the files when a "make install" is done.  I was 
> successful in building a dpkg that does not have any dependencies, but when 
> I add dependencies it still copies the files to the location but it says 
> that the dependencies failed.  So my question is what runs before the 
> dependencies are checked and what runs after the dependencies are checked?

I think you want Pre-Depends, which have to be installed before the
package is unpacked. The ordering of the dpkg install process can be
found in the dpkg-doc package.

Ben

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