Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (89 mails)

[Richard Bos <radoeka@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pascal,

Op maandag 19 december 2005 10:19, schreef Pascal Bleser:
> Another idea... let's call it "meta" or "virtual" packages...
>
> Make empty packages that pull several dependencies using their Requires
> tags to make packagers' life easier.

this is nothing new.  It has been used in suse-7.3 already.  This following 
packages are virual ones:
./suse/extra/8.1/koffice-suite-3.0-0_rb1.i386.rpm 
./suse/extra/7.3/gnome2-2.0-rb2.i386.rpm 
./suse/extra/7.3/kde-3.0-3.i386.rpm 
./suse/extra/8.2/MPlayer-suite-1.0-rb2.i586.rpm

You find them in ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/apt4rpm/

> Mauricio "netmask" Teixeira and I talked about that idea, as Mauricio told
> me that Connectiva has that approach with so-called "task" packages
> (task-c++-devel, etc...). They also use it to do the same as SUSE Linux'
> "selections" (*.sel files in yast2 repositories), e.g. "task-mail-server",
> but that's a different story ;)
>
> I could really use such a "meta-gnome-devel" package ;)))

Than use apt:

apt showgroup
E: No groupname given.
richard@linux:~/cvs/server> man apt
Reformatting apt(1), please wait...
richard@linux:~/cvs/server> apt groupnames
Group name         Description
-----------        ------------
Basis-Devel-10.0-65.noarch C/C++ Compiler and Tools
Fonts-10.0-65.noarch Fonts
Games-10.0-65.noarch Games
Gnome-10.0-65.noarch GNOME System
Gnome-Devel-10.0-65.noarch GNOME Development

apt showgroup Gnome-Devel-10.0-65.noarch
Group: Gnome-Devel-10.0-65.noarch
Summary: GNOME Development
Required groups:
  Gnome
  Basis-Devel
Packages:
  aalib-devel
  aalib-devel-32bit
  alsa-devel
  anjuta
etc

man apt is your friend would Patrick say.

-- 
Richard Bos
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