How does apt-get work out a package's dependencies?
Hi all,
As you may or may not know, I started a project called hyper-get a couple of weeks ago, but there is just a little problem I can't find a solution to (it's for Debian-based systems). I was wondering if anybody knew how apt-get discovers a package's dependencies.
I would be extremely grateful if someone could let me know how it is done, so that we can begin work on this application soon. :) Thanks in advance! M. |
man dpkg should help. I've never used Debian but in Arch, that packages are just archives with a file that contains a list of deps, a file that contains a list of files, a file that contains a description and a small script that does whatever is required to install the package. .deb's would probably be somethign similar :)
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in case anyone runs into this again they can serach for apt-get to find out how it works, we havea naexplaination on it in the blog
h**p://hyper-get.sourceforge.net/news/?p=5#more-5 ^^had to do that or it wouldn't allow the url |
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