Re: Ignore a dependency

[Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de>]

In the email from Tuesday, 13 September 2022 15:58:52 +03 user Roberto A. 
Foglietta wrote:
> Il Mar 13 Set 2022, 14:53 Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de> ha scritto:
> > In the email from Tuesday, 13 September 2022 14:55:58 +03 user Roberto A.
> > 
> > Foglietta wrote:
> > > I wish to ignore a package that it is listed ad dependency. Just that
> > > package and its dependencies.
> > > 
> > > mainpackage nothis-
> > > 
> > > Notice the minus at the end.
> > > 
> > > I tried this approach with different options buy broke the building
> > > 
> > > Thank,
> > > -R
> > 
> > Hello Roberto
> > 
> > Could you please clarify what exactly do you mean?
> > 
> > Is it pure Isar dependency (custom packages), or you might want to install
> > some Debian package and ignore some of it's dependencies?
> 
> The 2nd you wrote: a debian package.
> 
> > Any example of what you've tried already would be great.
> 
> As example you can choose any .deb that has a dependency and try to install
> without it.
> 
> Thanks, R-

This is not supported by Isar out of the box.

Packages are installed to rootfs using apt that resolves their dependencies 
and this is can't be changed.

What you could try is write a custom recipe that somehow repacks the .deb file 
so that all deps would be stripped from it.

For example, "deb2targz" could be used ant resulting .tar file could be 
debianized again, without any deps.

-- 
Uladzimir Bely