Jason Gunthorpe writes:
>On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>> While what you say is in principle true, in practice it doesn't always
>> work out that way. My experience has been that many problems experienced
>> by our users, and much of the fault on "broken" CDs have been the result
>> of o
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > Of course this is not at all true, the package files are generated
> > directly from the .deb files daily they are never wrong, if they were then
> > our tools would stop working!
>
> While what you say is in principle true, in practice it doesn't alw
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> > I should have made it clear that my intent was to find any and all
> > references, that could not be satisfied in the supplied set of packages.
> > As the Packages file is the "weak link" in the distri
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I should have made it clear that my intent was to find any and all
> references, that could not be satisfied in the supplied set of packages.
> As the Packages file is the "weak link" in the distribution method, I
> decided to interrogate the actual pack
First I want to thank everyone for their replies.
Second I want to appologize for my incorrect phrasing of the subject line.
Several people have pointed out that there are very nice packages that
deal with dependencies, while others pointed out that the other "or"ed
elements satisfied the depende
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> > > > The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds
> > > > and
> > > > collects Package:, Provides:, Pre-Depends:, Depends:, Recommends:, and
> > > > Suggests: field informatio
On 21 Jan 1999, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > giflib3g-dev gdk-imlib-dev
> > giflib3g-dev imlib-dev
> > giflib3g-dev libfnlib-dev
>
> The full dependencies for these is mo
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
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> Dale Sheetz writes:
> ...
> >
> >Package not in archives Package which depends on
> > Package not in archives
> >
> ...
> >tclx
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds and
> > > collects Package:, Provides:, Pre-Depends:, Depends:, Recommends:, and
> > > Suggests: field information and deterines several things.
> >
> > You do realize that is wh
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> > Since the recent discussion with Richard Stallman about the unsatisfied
> > suggests message, I have undertaken the examination of the main archives.
> >
> > The script that I am working on unpacks al
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> giflib3g-dev gdk-imlib-dev
> giflib3g-dev imlib-dev
> giflib3g-dev libfnlib-dev
The full dependencies for these is more like:
libungif3g-dev | giflib3g-dev
Basicall
Dale Sheetz writes:
...
>
>Package not in archives Package which depends on
> Package not in archives
>
...
>tclx emacspeak
>tclx74
Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds and
> collects Package:, Provides:, Pre-Depends:, Depends:, Recommends:, and
> Suggests: field information and deterines several things.
You do know we have a packages file, don't you? And you d
>> "DS" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> The most interesting problem looks like ppp, for which there isn't
DS> a package.
This looks like a problem in your script, I would say.
http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/base/ppp.html shows it, and I
can happily download it from ftp.d
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Since the recent discussion with Richard Stallman about the unsatisfied
> suggests message, I have undertaken the examination of the main archives.
>
> The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds and
> collects Package:, Provi
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