wpkg --force-depends ...

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Wed, 12/05/2012 - 05:31
All Force Options
--force-all --no-force-all
--refuse-all
--force-architecture --no-force-architecture
--refuse-architecture
--force-breaks --no-force-breaks
--refuse-breaks
--force-configure-any --no-force-configure-any
--refuse-configure-any
--force-conflicts --no-force-conflicts
--refuse-conflicts
--force-depends --no-force-depends
--refuse-depends
--force-depends-version --no-force-depends-version
--refuse-depends-version
--force-distribution --no-force-distribution
--refuse-distribution
--force-downgrade --no-force-downgrade
--refuse-downgrade
--force-file-info --no-force-file-info
--refuse-file-info
--force-hold --no-force-hold
--refuse-force-hold
--force-overwrite --no-force-overwrite
--refuse-overwrite
--force-overwrite-dir --no-force-overwrite-dir
--refuse-overwrite-dir
--force-remove-essential --no-force-remove-essential
--refuse-remove-essential
--force-rollback --no-force-rollback
--refuse-rollback
--force-upgrade-any-version --no-force-upgrade-any-version
--refuse-upgrade-any-version
--force-vendor --no-force-vendor
--refuse-vendor

 

Before installing a package, the installation process validates the dependencies defined in the packages being installed. All Depends dependencies must be satisfied one way or the other:

  • The dependency may already be installed with the correct version,
  • The dependency may be specified on the installation command line (in any order,)
  • The dependency may be defined in a repository directory,
  • The --force-depends option was specified and none of the --no-force-depends or equivalent options were specified.

If all those checks fail, then the installation fails.

Note that the dependency tests include a package name, an architecture1, and a version check.

The --force-depends option allows you to force the installer to proceed even when one or more dependencies are missing.

IMPORTANT NOTE

It is important to note that the --force-depends option allows the installation of a package even when one or more of its dependencies are missing. However, note that even if you offer a repository directory and some of those dependencies could be satisfied, none will. In other words, when the --force-depends option is used, absolutely no implicit packages get installed.

The use of this option is not recommended.

IMPORTANT NOTE

The ---no-force-all, --refusee-all, --no-force-depends, --refuse-depends all cancel this feature whatever the position of the different options on the command line.

 
  • 1. The architecture is implicit as we use the test of the target system architecture which can be ignored using the --force-architecture option. This works because at this point the target system cannot support more than one architecture with wpkg.