On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:28:25PM +0200, Lukas Rovensky wrote: > One more question from the maintenance point of view. The pkg(1) makes > possible to freeze a package at a specified version to stop update flows. > Currently this is decided by the user to use this constraint. Will it be > possible to set this constraint in the package itself, that is after > installing a newer version of the package it will be frozen automatically?
We have the idea of incorporations -- a kind of dependency that will freeze the depended-upon packages. This way, you can install the "everything" "cluster" (for instance), and all the packages beneath it will then be upgraded in lock-step when you upgrade that single package. But that sounds a bit different from what you're proposing, and I'm not sure precisely what that is. Are you suggesting that there's a sense of "the last" version of a package, after which it's installed, it can never be upgraded again? Danek
