Re: Control File

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:29:46PM +0100, David Given wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 16:56, Zeno Davatz wrote:
> [...]
> > Why do the dependency-manager not know that I already got apache-ssl
> > installed. I wrote in my control file that apache-ssl-ywesee replaces
> > apache, apache-common, apache-ssl
> 
> All Replaces: does is ensure that if you install apache-ssl-ywesee, then
> apache, apache-common and apache-ssl are removed. What you want is to
> add:
> 
> Provides: apache, apache-common, apache-ssl
> 
> This will tell the package manager that apache-ssl-ywesee has the same
> functionality as the named packages, so that any dependency that relies
> on one can depend on apache-ssl-ywesee instead.

Mmm, is Provides a superset of Replaces, or do you have to specify both
?

Friendly,

Sven Luther