Re: apt-get dependencies issue
Justin C. Lloyd wrote:
> I've just switched over to using a self-built sendmail configuration.
> In order to get this to work, I first had to force a removal of exim,
> and therefore of the mail-transport-agent virtual package. Now, I
> can't upgrade:
[...]
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> What is the proper way, other than using a standard Debian package, of
> handling these situtations? I have this same sort of issue with
> building my own perl, but that's another can of worms...
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| thomas@alpha:~$ dpkg -p equivs
| Package: equivs
| Priority: extra
| Section: admin
| Installed-Size: 51
| Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <martinb@debian.org>
| Architecture: all
| Version: 2.0.3
| Depends: perl | perl5, debhelper, dpkg-dev, devscripts, make, fakeroot
| Filename: dists/sid/main/binary-i386/admin/equivs_2.0.3.deb
| Size: 17936
| MD5sum: 72b831ac937fb66400c5b23777db0b29
| Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies
| This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian
| packages, which only contain dependency information.
| .
| This way, you can make the Debian package management
| system believe that equivalents to packages on which other
| packages do depend on are actually installed.
| .
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Thomas Weinbrenner
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