Re: Dummy Packages
--- Bill Bell <whbell@bell-cs.com> wrote:
> Quoting martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>:
>
> > also sprach Charles Baker <rascharles@yahoo.com>
> [2002.04.15.2247
> > +0200]:
> > > Can someone point me to a dock that will help me
> > > create a dummy package? I want to install
> velocity as
> > > a deb, but it requires libxalan2-java which is
> > > available. However, libxalan2-java depends on
> > > java2-runtime which is not, but I do have a
> Java2
> > > environment installed. BTW, this is on a machine
> > > running sid. So what I'm after is a dummy
> > > java2-runtime package which points to my local
> java2 install.
> >
> > apt-get install equivs
> > cd /usr/share/doc/equivs/
> > <read>
> >
> > --
> > martin; (greetings from the heart of
> the sun.)
> > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:";
> net@madduck
> >
> > the micro$oft hoover: finally, a product that's
> supposed to suck!
> >
>
> I just installed java-virtual-machine-dummy from
> Woody today. With one quick
> edit to /etc/java-vm.conf (I think) I was up and
> running JDK2-1.3.
>
<<SNIP>>
I'll look into that. I have already followed martin's
advice and created a dummy package of my own and got
all the stuff that depended on Java2 installed.
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