Re: How can I install applications which have conflicts in dependences? OR How to install VMWare?

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:26:22 -0500
Przemys?aw Pawe?czyk <ppkv.net.pl> wrote:


> 
> > Creating meta-packages with pre-created themes and
configurations
> > would be useful for some. Please submit.
> 
> Please, tip me where to read about it?
> I've run hurridly pkgsrc docs but I didn't find what
would be of
> great conviniency to meta-pkg creations. Namely
meta-pkg-buld.sh
> where I could enter all pkg names of interest and the
script would do
> the rest.
> 
> Only then I could gather packages of some sort,
additional graphics
> or data files into one entity and create meta-package.
> 
That would be a nice package to create...

More seriously -- creating a metapackage is indeed
non-obvious.  I just
built one (not yet committed -- there are still some issues)
and it
took several tries and checks of how existing metapackages
work.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbi
a.edu/~smb

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:08:44 -0400
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smbcs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> More seriously -- creating a metapackage is indeed
non-obvious.  I
> just built one (not yet committed -- there are still
some issues) and
> it took several tries and checks of how existing
metapackages work.

That sounds not only strange but ominous... I've always
thought about meta-package as a sort of pkg_add runing
against a file with package names in it. Nothing more.
Dependencies were to be downloaded automatically as usual.

Regards,
pp

--
Przemysław Pawełczyk <ppkv.net.pl>