<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ross Burton</b> <<a href="mailto:ross@burtonini.com">ross@burtonini.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:41 +0200, Michael Stepanov wrote:<br>> I need to create a simple installer which should install my<br>> application and its dependencies. As I saw it's impossible to specify<br>> more than one package which should be installed in the Application
<br>> Manager script - *.install (I can be wrong BTW). Another way is to<br>> create a meta-package but it's again impossible to install all<br>> packages listed in its section Depends.<br><br>Why is it impossible to create a dummy package which depends on all of
<br>the packages you need installed? In fact, why doesn't your application<br>depend on everything it needs anyway?</blockquote><div><br>I'd like to provide for users a simplest way to install my application. As I know Application Manager just display the error about missing dependencies but
<span style="font-weight: bold;">not install them automatically </span>(at least in OS2007)! So, I'd like to create some installer which add all needed repositories and install all needed dependencies without user interaction. I found some example of osso-xterm (
<a href="http://maemotalk.feelslikeburning.com/2006/04/27/metapackage-osso-xterm/">http://maemotalk.feelslikeburning.com/2006/04/27/metapackage-osso-xterm/</a>). It includes binaries of following packages - osso-xterm, tiny-vim, slocate and openSSH. But in my case I prefer not put all needed binaries into one package because it'll make maintaining of them too difficult.
<br><br>As I understand *.install file can contain one package only. Or I'm wrong? If it allows to specify there more than one package it'll be enough for me.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br>Michael