Re: APT overrules self-compiled packages
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 10:31:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > Provides currently can't satisfy versioned dependencies, so this will
> > often be inadequate.
>
> Neither can incremented version numbers in all cases. Consider:
>
> Depends: foo (= 1.0-1)
>
> This is a prime reason why this behavior of apt stinks. See exactly this
> trouble being run into by the apt-build program in bug #155170.
Hm, I'm surprised that that bug can't be worked around more easily by
making sure to install everything in the same dpkg run and then possibly
doing 'dpkg --configure -a'.
I agree that it might do well to be optional for special cases, though.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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