Re: Depends generated by maintainer scripts
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, James Mastros wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:54:00PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote:
> > the process of getting the binary from the official site. I have that
> > working using wget in the postinst script. However that means that
> > setiathome has to be made dependent on wget. At a later point of time,
> > if the user wants to remove wget, he/she would have to remove
> > setiathome first or use dpkg exceptions to remove wget.
> You could simply "sugest" (or even recommend) wget instead of the
> heavy-handed "depend", and give the user a message and tell them to download
> the tarball and put it in /tmp if they don't have wget. This would probably
> work fairly well -- though I'm not certian if you'd get the ordering you
> want if wget and dpkg are installed in the same {apt,dpkg} run.
>
do you know what netscape deb maintainer did time ago? at package
configuration it looked for a tarball in /tmp. only if it doesn't find
the tarball it prints info on how and where download it
cheers
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