On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:13:40PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Note that buildds don't understand |,
Sure they do. At least partially. If an autobuilder finds a package with alternative build-dependencies, it will either * Leave everything the way it is, if any of the mentioned packages is installed, or if any installed package satisfies a virtual dependency given in the alternative build-dependency, * Install a package satisfying the virtual dependency as specified by its configuration (for example, some packages are so broken that they need an MTA to build; if exim would be installed in such a situation, the build would fail due to exim's configuration at install time. Therefore, autobuilders may have smail configured to satisfy mail-transport-agent) * Install a random package satisfying the single given virtual dependency if there is no configuration, and the first listed package is a virtual package, * Install the first listed package if it is not a virtual package. * ... maybe something else; I didn't look at the code. However, ... > but buildds won't be building the > newer version on woody anyway. Just remember to put the version needed > for sid first in each alternative. ... that of course doesn't mean that this is bad advice; only that it won't always result in the right build-dependencies installed on an autobuilder. -- wouter at grep dot be "Human knowledge belongs to the world" -- From the movie "Antitrust"
