On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Daniel Müller wrote: > It can't be very useful to install the same package version over and > over, so why should apt do it?
It is, though. APT is an upgrade tool, it tries to bring you into syncronization with the debian archive, so if you have a package that is not in sync it should be updated. There are various user initated ways to prevent updating, but no way to initiate update if this feature doesn't exist. > The reason why it did in my case was caused by different .debs with > the same version string but mismatching headers, like you said, but > actually there were only two of them. The third was the status file, Ah, yeah, kind of a degenerate case though. Jason
