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Le 16/08/2013 14:54, berenger.morel@neutralite.org a écrit : > Le 11.08.2013 23:53, François Patte a écrit : >> See attachment: auctex package is only a lisp package for emacs and >> texlive is absolutely not needed.... The dependency problem is only a >> packager craze! > > The easier solution I can see is to make an empty package with the > name you want, and then use dpkg to install it. > > In few words, such a package can be made by creating a folder with the > name of the final package (not sure that this naming stuff is > required), say barfoo. > Then, create the file barfoo/DEBIAN/control, and fill it with desired > info, like this: > ============== > barfoo/DEBIAN/control > ______________ > Package: barfoo > Version: X.Y.Z > Section: whatever > Priority: optional > Architecture: all > Maintainer: john doe <jdoe@foobar.org> > Description: what do you think I am? > ============== > Next step is to do "#dpkg-deb -b barfoo ./ && dpkg -i barfoo.deb" and > this will create and install your package. > > Now, you have two solutions: make a package for auctex, with the > dependencies you want, or make dumb packages for it's dependencies you > do not want. Of course, it auctex really depends on them, you will > only achieve to break it... but I think you guessed that :) > > PS: there are probably a lot of better ways to create debian packages. > But, this one seems the easiest one for me. You can also add other > files in DEBIAN, so that the package manager can manage other > informations like hash of the files... you can have all the examples > you want from the debian's packages you will find in > /var/cache/apt/archive. You just need to extract files from the debs, > with a usual archive manager or dpkg itself, I do not know if there is > a real difference. > > Thanks for the suggestion; I followed the command given by Andrew and it worked: dpkg --force-depends package.deb I don't understand the way packagers build the dependencies because I installed the same way another package, lyx, which strongly depends on texlive (or other TeX installation) because you cannot use it without latex. The first time I launched lyx, it found without any problem my texlive installation which is on /opt.... debian installation of texlive (2012, one year late...) is on /usr. Who can understand! Regards. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte |