On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > This feature is intended to support people who install a glibc2.0 or libc5 > > compile of a package and do not change the version number when > > recompiling. Their package will automatically be upgraded to the archive > > version when they are ready. > > Euh, hold on. You mean that if you have a packages available with the > same version-number, but a different MD5 checksum or so apt will happily > install it?
It doesn't use MD5, but yes that is tbe basic principle. I it is much better than irretrevably hiding the fact Jason
