On Wed Aug 21, 2024 at 12:47 PM BST, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> The only way I've used equivs is to produce a package named mta-local
> which looks like this:
Yes, there's a distinction between satisfying a virtual dependency,
like mta-local, and the use I outlined. The virtual dependency one
is proba
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 11:57:06 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue Aug 20, 2024 at 1:55 PM BST, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > You're saying that you use equivs to create packages that have the SAME
> > NAMES as Debian packages??
>
> That's entirely the point of it, surely. You want to convince th
On Tue Aug 20, 2024 at 1:55 PM BST, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> You're saying that you use equivs to create packages that have the SAME
> NAMES as Debian packages??
That's entirely the point of it, surely. You want to convince the
packaging system that you have dependency $FOO satisfied, even if you
do
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 12:26:39 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Sun Aug 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM BST, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 17:08:00 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > > I've long felt that they were overcomplicated in themselves: the
> > > ideal UX should be not much mor
On Sun Aug 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM BST, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 17:08:00 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > I've long felt that they were overcomplicated in themselves: the
> > ideal UX should be not much more than "equivs package-name" =>
> > ./package-name.deb generated, IMHO.
On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 17:08:00 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> I've long felt that they were overcomplicated in themselves: the
> ideal UX should be not much more than "equivs package-name" =>
> ./package-name.deb generated, IMHO. I once had ambitions to add
> that UX (either as a patch to equiv
On Thu Aug 15, 2024 at 10:38 PM BST, Dmitrii Odintcov wrote:
> The existing tutorials on `equivs` tools are few and not very
> detailed, so I'm looking for some clarification.
>
> What do `equivs-control`/`build` do beyond what can already be
> accomplished with a `DEBIAN/control` file and `dpkg --
Hi,
The existing tutorials on `equivs` tools are few and not very
detailed, so I'm looking for some clarification.
What do `equivs-control`/`build` do beyond what can already be
accomplished with a `DEBIAN/control` file and `dpkg --build`?
Thanks
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