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Re: How do I tell Debian database about a program?



On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> On 28-Oct-99 Ashley Clark wrote:
> > 
> > You should create/install an empty package that has in the control
> > file "Provides: apache, apache-doc, apache-whatever..."
> 
> With the "equivs" utility or is there some other way?

Yes, equivs should be adequate (I personally though have never done
the steps I've advocated, they're just the ones I would take. ;) I
suppose you could build the deb file by hand but equivs seems to be
much easier.

-- 
Ashley Clark


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