On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 12:42 PM, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> Why not just copy the x.y.x version into the package name, > and then add 1 to allow for updates/corrections. That way, > you can even have both versions coexist. > > app-configs-1.0.5 1.0.5-1 > app-configs-1.0.6 1.0.6-1 > > à la > > cpp-4.7 4.7.4-3 > cpp-4.8 4.8.4-1 > cpp-4.9 4.9.2-10 > > and many other packages. > > Cheers, > David. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I suppose we could change the versioning to app-configs-1.0.5-1 and so forth. I would speculate though that I may still run into my original issue where I need my-app's control file to depend on a specific version of app-configs, even though there are multiple available versions (and likely higher versions) in the repository. Essentially I'm trying to get the following working: my-app-1.0.5 requires app-configs-1.0.5 my-app-1.0.6 requires app-configs-1.0.6 So when i type: $ apt-get install my-app=1.0.5 it installs app-configs-1.0.5. Currently trying that I get the error: "my-app : Depends: app-configs (= 1.0-5~aaa) but 1.0-6~bbbb is to be installed." I want to make sure a speciflc my-app version installs only a specific app-configs version. Sijis
