I've been using a meta-package (built with equivs) to keep a bunch of my co-workers' installations in sync, but I've been having trouble in some cases.
It seems as though apt-get *really* likes to install the newest version of a package, even when it could successfully install the specified packages in the Depends line. For example, say I have a package "buildtools", which depends on several other packages: Depends: build-essential, foo (= 2.3.4-5), bar (>> 5.4.3-2), baz This works fine, until I want to install a *older* version of the "buildtools" package which depends on an older version of "foo" ...let's say 2.3.4-4: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: buildtools: Depends: foo (= 2.3.4-4) but 2.3.4-5 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Is there any way to tell APT, "yes, just install the dependencies" ? Originally, I thought this was a bug, but I think it may be a feature request :) Thanks! -- Josh Huber
