Re: Pre-Depends? (was Re: Init starting twice again)
On 4 Nov 1998, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:
> >>>>> "LP" == Loic Prylli <Loic.Prylli@ens-lyon.fr> writes:
>
> LP> You have to be very careful to upgrade the sysvinit package
> LP> before the libc, (and libc before dpkg).
>
> Hrm. I probably should have said something about this earlier, but
> being a debian packaging newbie and all - should we start throwing
> Pre-Depends around? I'm pretty certain we can stop the libc/dpkg
> problems from occurring this way, and since there seem to be some
> additional exciting dependencies arising, maybe it's something we
> should look at.
Without knowing the details..
If number of packages that perform a telinit u are small then yes it
would be sensible for them to predepend on a working sysvinit.
If the new dpkg truely requires the new libc then by the essential
package predepends rule it should pre-depend on it.
Jason
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