Re: Replacing cron

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

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:31:55PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On Sunday 06 October 2002 12:19, Sjoerd wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently tried to make a package of dcron to replace cron:
> >
> > Package: dcron
> > Architecture: any
> > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
> > Recommends: exim | smail | sendmail | mail-transport-agent
> > Conflicts: cron
> > Provides: cron
> > Replaces: cron
> > ...
> >
> > However, this doesn't really work with logrotate for example, which depends
> > on cron (>= 3.0pl1-53). I tried:
> >
> > ...
> > Provides: cron 4.0.0
> > ...
> >
> > Because I thought it was the version number why it didn't work. How do I
> > solve this? Is there a need for a virtual package cron?
> >
> > Sjoerd
> 
> Provides can not provide a version (currently, may change some day).  You can 
> ask for people to depend on cron | dcron.  Although the question is now, why 
> a new cron??

Or fix versioned provides. But then i was told it is a dpkg issue. 

Friendly,

Sven Luther