Deb Installer for Dapper.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:07:10AM +0200, Sivan Green wrote:
> Hi Michael!
Hi Sivan,
 
> On 22:36, Sat 15 Oct 05, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > I like this idea, but what do you think about going one step further?
> > My idea would be to inspect the deb file and extract the control
> > information and parse the Depends/PreDepends/Conflicts line. Now use
> > libapt to figure if these dependencies can be satified and if so,
> In satisfied you mean that either:
> 
> 1) Required dependencies reside on the default directory
> where you attempt to install the local .deb? or,
> 
> 2) All dependencies can be satisfied from the online
> repository.

Initially (in the current prototype) only (2) is supported. It
shouldn't be too hard to add support for a modified version of (1)
that takes all additonally supplied local debs into account as well
(e.g.: "# gdebi foo.deb foo_data.deb").
 
> I'm acutally curious to know how you can use libapt from
> python (?) to do the dependency tracking.

python-apt contains a "apt_inst" module that provides useful functions
to inspect a deb. I attached a small example.

Cheers,
 Michael

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