On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 10:33:05PM -0500, Bhaskar, K.S wrote: > [KSB] I think I just realized that we may not have a problem at all, > but want to talk through it. > > If fis-gtm points to the latest release of GT.M, anyone installing it > will get the latest version in the following scenarios: > > * Anyone installing fis-gtm will get the latest release of GT.M. > * If a package depends on fis-gtm, anyone installing that package will > get the latest GT.M at the time by virtue of the dependency on fis-gtm. > * When there is a new release of GT.M, anyone who has fis-gtm installed > will download and install the latest version of GT.M. > > The important thing is to make sure that installing the latest > release of GT.M through the latest version of fis-gtm does not remove > any older releases of GT.M already on the system. As long as we can > ensure that older releases of GT.M must be manually removed, and will > not be automatically removed, there is no problem for GT.M users.
That's what putting packages on HOLD is for. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ gpg-keyserver.de E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
