[Apt-Rpm] some dependencies are not resolvable

[Johan Huysmans]

Apparently this can be solved to use --bloat as an argument when running 
genbasedir.

I don't know if this is recommended behavior or not...


Greetings,
Johan Huysmans



Johan Huysmans wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I just noticed that some dependencies aren't resolved by apt.
>
> Here is the situation:
> Package 1 contains file foo which is a symlink.
> Package 2 depends on the file foo.
>
> When installing package 2 with apt it will fail its dependency and say 
> it can not be found in the repository.
> Installing with yum it will install that dependency.
>
> I found this problem with the package redhat-lsb on CentOS 5.
> The package depends on a file which he provides himself and this file 
> is a symlink.
> The package can be installed using yum or rpm but not with apt.
>
> I also noticed this with tomcat6 from JPackage5.0 which depends on a 
> file provided by ecj.
>
>
> An other issue I noticed is the fact that the -q doesn't work and that 
> when the output of installing a package is written to a file it looks 
> ugly.
>
>
> Greetings,
> Johan Huysmans
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