On Monday 14 February 2005 02:52, Jeff wrote:
> Monday, February 14, 2005, 4:19:36 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 February 2005 15:06, Brad Benson wrote:
> >> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:39:25 -0500, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > I tried to install MythTV 0.16 using
> >> >   apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.16
> >> > apt said it was installing 0.16 but when I
> >> > check the installed packages with rpm I found
> >> > many components are 0.17. The backend is 0.16
> >> > so I really need to find 0.16.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> I'm not sure why apt would install 0.17 rpms when you specified 0.16,
> >
> > I am. All he said was "install mythtv-suite, version 0.16". The
> > mythtv-suite package is a virtual package that requires all the other
> > myth packages, greater than or equal to the version of mythtv-suite.
> > Since apt sees newer versions, it picks those instead.
> >
> > Jeff, you'll have to specify the version for every component.
> >
> > i.e.,
> > # apt-get install mythtv-backend=0.16 mythtv-frontend=0.16
> > mythtv-[etc]=0.16
> >
> > But why not just upgrade the backend to 0.17 also? Went off without a
> > hitch here...
>
> I did install each package individually and that worked. I guess I
> would have expected if I installed mythtv-suite 0.16 that it would
> have picked up the components for 0.16. I guess the virtual packages
> don't allow for specifying exact version #'s of their contents.

Its entirely possible to tell the virtual package to only install 
mythtv-<component>=<suite version>, via a stricter dependencies in the suite 
spec file. You'd have to ask Axel why it isn't stricter, I'm sure he has a 
reason...

> I'm installing 0.16 instead of 0.17 because I'm upgrading from
> FC1->FC3 and I have 2 boxes. This is the 1st box and the other
> box is still running FC1+0.16. When both are on FC3 then I'll upgrade
> to 0.17.

Probably prudent then, since folks seem to be having some issues with Myth 
0.17 on RH9 and FC1...

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