dpkg version dependencies

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 27 00:32:47 UTC 2008


On Thursday 26 June 2008 23:11, Kevin Holland wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to use the dpkg that's part of BB and the dependencies
> version doesn't seem to work.  I created to packages one that depends on
> the other.  The first one called testpkg-0.0.1.deb installs fine but the
> second one won't install saying: 
> "dpkg: package testpkg2 depends on testpkg, which is not installed or
> flagged to be installed"
> This is the control file of the second package
> 
> Package: testpkg2
> Version: 0.0.1
> Section: devel 
> Priority: optional
> Architecture: ppc
> Essential: no
> Depends: testpkg (>=0.0.1)
> Pre-Depends:
> Recommends:  
> Suggests: 
> Installed-Size:
> Maintainer: 
> Conflicts:
> Replaces:
> Provides:
> Description: The description can contain free-form text
>              describing the function of the program, what
>              kind of features it has, and so on.
> 
> It seems to work if I don't add the (>=0.0.1) I'm using BB version
> 1.5.1
> Thanks

Usual procedure is to try newer version before reporting bugs.

However, in your case the bug is likely still there, because
we seem to be lacking people willing to looking into dpkg to fix bugs
and improve.
--
vda



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