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Hi all,

I installed the davfs2 package (http://maemo.org/packages/package_in....4.3-3-maemo5/) using dpkg, in particular:

# dpkg --ignore-depends=neon -i davfs2_1.4.3-3-maemo4_armel.deb

Reason for ignore-depends is because there is no "neon" package. There is a "libneon" (http://maemo.org/packages/view/libneon/) and "libneon27" (http://maemo.org/packages/package_in....29.3-2maemo1/).

The latter is the one that I installed, and mounting davfs file systems works OK.

Now apt-get complains that package "neon" is missing and therefore wants to remove "davfs". This happens e.g. if I do apt-get autoremove or if I use FAM (because it always issues an "autoremove" before install).

If I do "apt-get -f install" apt-get tells me it wants to remove davfs2.

NOW, I want to tell dpkg somehow to stop bugging me and consider "neon" to be installed. Is there some way to do this?

I'm not expert in DEB (happy Slackware user and searching around here and in google didn't turn up anything.

Reino,

I don't have my n900 with me a.t.m. but I am fairly sure dpkg and/or apt allow for keeping specific pieces of software around.

To install a selection, change hold to install, so

That should do the trick.

Thanks. Unfortunately it didn't work. That just "holds" the davfs2 package, but apt-get still complains about the missing dependency.

I guess I'll have to somehow create a fake "neon" package to shut apt-get up.

I wonder what the effect of "dpkg -P dpkg apt-get" would be. Feel tempted. Really.

Reinob,

Apt allows for the same kind of method:

More info at the online man page for apt, below.

http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get

AFAIK --ignore-hold does a diffeent thing, and it didn't work anyway.

In the end I've decided to (for now) remove davfs2. I will then download it and hack the neon dependency out of it, or if that doesn't work out I'll try to create a fake "neon" package.

Unfortunately equivs doesn't work on the N900 (needs a whole lot of packages), so I'll see how I can "hand-craft" a meta-package.

I really really rate packaging systems, especially in combination with bad packages.

there two way you can fixed this....

1.contact the maintainer & ask him to remove the neon dependencies....
2.edit the files (deb) your self...