On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Michael Fratoni wrote: > On Thursday 09 January 2003 07:56 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > p.s. at what point in my construction of a new distro would i be > > warned about a dependency error? i'm testing a new build as we > > speak, and i may deliberately introduce a dependency error just to > > see what happens. > > As in a missing package? > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/upd-instroot defines needed packages, and will > complain about a missing package. I don't recall offhand if it terminates > the build, however. actually, here's a concrete example: openldap is required by openldap-clients adn openldap-servers. shortly, i'm going to try to build a new distro that includes the two latter packages but not the required openldap package. should i expect a warning/error from the distro build? rday p.s. obviously, this is just for test purposes.
