On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:54:28 +0100, Robert Millan writes: >On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:35:44PM +1000, Alexander Zangerl wrote: >> >> * emulating the build-depends by using depends: for tun-source >> doesn't work: "depends: blabla [freebsd]" is not supported by dpkg, >> that works only for build-dependencies. > >Actualy it does, but not for binary-indep packages. We could fix dpkg though. > I might get into >that later.
ah, interesting; my copy of the policy (3.6.1.1, section 7.1) says that this is only available for build-time stuff. the package building tools didn't accept the control file with arch-specifics in the depends: field when i tried, but it's not unlikely that i've made some mistake there. but coming back to the main point: the only /real/ fix that i can see would be to have the kernel module building environment check build-dependencies for modules. any hackery on the outside -source package is going to be exactly that, an ugly brittle hack. regards az -- + Alexander Zangerl + DSA 42BD645D + (RSA 5B586291) Fachbegriffe der Informatik, Putzfrau: Nicht absichtlich bösartig handelnde Person ohne Entscheidungsgewalt -- Bodo Eggert
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