On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but this seems like the Wrong Way to > do > things... As I understand it, you want me to override (in my own tool) the > calculation of the candidate version of a package so that some packages will > have a different candidate version than the 'normal' one. The problem here is > that this isn't standard across the apt tools, and in fact isn't even written > back to the disk as far as I can tell, so if (for example) the user downgrades > package foo from version 1.06-1 to 1.05-9, the next run of 'apt-get upgrade' > will clobber this change and bring foo back to 1.06-1.
Yes.. That is primarily because nobody has come up with a complete means to specify the desired candidate version that can account of all the features people want. Right now nobody has even made a tool that can at all change the version field, even though it is possible. > I thought (maybe I'm wrong :/ ) that there were fields in the apt cache > which > could be used to override and/or influence the automatic selection of > candidate > versions: Package::TargetVer and Package::TargetDist. Am I wrong here? What I would ignore these fields, they were an experiment. Jason
