Re: Is there an easier way to fake deb package?
Steve Kieu <haiquy@yahoo.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I need to tell dselect or dpkg... , that I have lynx
> installed but not by debian packages, so it wont
> complain dependancies with others, for example..; Is
> there the best way to fake it? I know a package
> somewhere but it is rather complicated to do even I
> would rather press Q to force dselect than make it :-)
I think the equivs package should be able to do this.
$ apt-cache show equivs
Package: equivs
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 51
Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <martinb@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.0.4
Depends: perl|perl5, debhelper, dpkg-dev, devscripts, make, fakeroot
Filename: pool/main/e/equivs/equivs_2.0.4_all.deb
Size: 18178
MD5sum: 835d97f567fe0cf36700ebf012082993
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.
.
Another possibility is creation of a meta package. When this
package contains a dependency as "Depends: a, b, c", then
installing this package will also select packages a, b and c.
Instead of "Depends", you can also use "Recommends:" or
"Suggests:" for less demanding dependency.
.
Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used
might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please
note as well that using it is not the recommended way of dealing
with broken dependencies. Better file a bug report instead.
--
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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