Pierluigi Frullani wrote:
>>is ipkg supposed to recognize that e.g. package foo
>> Provides: bar
>>and then install foo when asked to
>> ipkg install bar
>>?
>>
>>
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>IIRC ipkg isn't able to do this. The only thing ipkg is able to do is to
>successfully resolve the "provides" after you have installed a package.
>I mean: if package foo provides bar, and another package "XX" depends on bar, if you
>install foo you will be able to instal "XX" without other needing.
>
>Changing this behavior wouldn't be easy at the moment. Sorry.
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I believe that this does work with ipkg. It can choose between multiple
packages providing 'bar' if they are for different architectures -- it
will choose highest priority architecture in that case. Otherwise, you
need to install one of the providers by name. The case that might is if
there is a package named 'foo' and a package named 'bar' that both
provide 'bar'. If this does not work, it is a regression.
Jamey
Received on Thu Jul 28 2005 - 08:04:45 EDT
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