Re: [Synaptic-devel] "Broken" package - How to suppress?

[Chris Miles]

Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 15:31, Chris Miles wrote:
>  
>
> > The suggestions in http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/faq.html#q26 did not 
> > work for me, skype_qt3_1 is still marked as "broken" in synaptic and 
> > will be removed if I "apply" any changes :-(
> >
> > With /etc/apt/apt.conf:
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > ...
> > RPM {
> >    Ignore { };
> >    Hold { "skype_qt3_1"; };
> >    
>
> Hold doesn't help with broken dependencies but Ignore can help in
> situations like this. Change the above to 
>
> RPM {
>    Ignore { "skype_qt3_1"; };
> }
>
> ..and apt+synaptic should stop complaining but that'll completely hide
> the package from apt & synaptic.
>
>
>  
>
> > Could I edit the dependency list (change qt3 to qt) or make a dummy 
> > package called "qt3" to satisfy the checks?
> >    
>
> Sure you can make a dummy package which provides the required dependency
> but it'd be better to fix the real package instead of trying to work
> around it. Changing "qt3" to "qt" in the skype specfile and rebuild
> shouldn't be too much work :) (assuming of course that source is
> available)
>
> RPM::Fake-Provides could be used for creating dummy provides entries as
> well but it's an undocumented hack, not really recommended.
>
>         - Panu -
>
>
>  
Thanks Panu,

Skype is used by a couple of friends - I would prefer to use one of the 
SIP programs, so, no I don't have access to the source.

I've now learnt the trick that I need to do an "update" after changing 
apt.conf. Using
RPM {
 Fake-Provides { "qt3"; };
...
seems to do the trick. (I never could get Ignore to do anything).

Thanks to all for your help.

Chris
ps I'm also pressing the providers to produce a RH9 RPM.