Re: dselect & binutils (fwd)
>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Boulter <sboulter@winternet.com> writes:
Sean> I'm going through dselect. I'm trying to get gcc 2.7.2-5
Sean> installed, but = it gives a dependency error that it
Sean> requires binutils (>=3D2.5.21.20). = Fine. I have 2.6-2
Sean> which, looks to me like it's >=3D2.5! I looked in = the
Sean> Packages file, just to be sure, and it shows that package
Sean> binutils = is version 2.6-2. So if gcc and binutils are
Sean> both selected for install, = and binutils is v2.6, why the
Sean> HELL does it give me the dependency error = on binutils?
Just a guess: Which version of dpkg did you use? Older versions
(before 1.0.8 ?) don't grog the '>=' and a string comparision will
fail since "=.*" > "9.*"
I packaged gcc-2.7.2-5 with dpkg-1.0.10
Siggy
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