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Re: packaging system
From: |
Stefan van der Walt |
Subject: |
Re: packaging system |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:27:58 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i |
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:47:46AM +0200, David Bateman wrote:
> I think a bit more complete dependency checking code might be good idea
> to get into place early to save us some pain later. At the moment you
> have a line "Depends:" in the DESCRIPTION file, that contains a list of
> all packages that the current package depends on. May I suggest that
> each package dependency has a seperate "Depends:" line of the form
>
> Depends: PACKAGE [<|=|>] VERSION
>
> to take into account the possible need for a particular version of a
> package or newer than, or range of versions.. For example you might have
>
> Depends: Signal >= 1.0.0
> Depends: Signal < 2.0.0
I think Søren implemented something like this already, since his
sample package contains the following line:
Depends: octave (>= 2.1.64)
Regards
Stéfan
- Re: packaging system, (continued)
- Re: packaging system, Bill Denney, 2005/06/19
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/20
- Re: packaging system, Søren Hauberg, 2005/06/20
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/20
- Re: packaging system, Paul Kienzle, 2005/06/20
- Re: packaging system, Søren Hauberg, 2005/06/20
- Re: packaging system, Søren Hauberg, 2005/06/21
- Re: packaging system, David Bateman, 2005/06/22
- Re: packaging system,
Stefan van der Walt <=
- Re: packaging system, David Bateman, 2005/06/22
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/22
- Re: packaging system, David Bateman, 2005/06/22
- Re: packaging system, Bill Denney, 2005/06/22
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/22
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/22
- Re: packaging system, Søren Hauberg, 2005/06/22
- Re: packaging system, David Bateman, 2005/06/22
- Re: packaging system, Søren Hauberg, 2005/06/26
- Re: packaging system, David Bateman, 2005/06/27