On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Debayan Banerjee wrote:
> Well, I develop a debian distribution for my organisation and I often need
> to confirm whether the packages in the repository are installable or not.
> I use edos-debcheck. Here is a sample invocation.
How we do this in Fedora is that we just run "yum install pkgname" and then
say "no" when asked whether to confirm the installation.
well - no - that only works if you do it to an empty chroot.
doing it locally only verifies that you have the bits on your local
system.
-sv