On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 10:24 -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:26:51PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:45 -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:00:28PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 23:46 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > > > > - can I request a specific version? > > > > > > > > yes > > > > > > Thats not exactly true. Only if the archive happens to keep old versions, > > > or if its a "gcc3" vs "gcc4" thing, where people are explicitly packaging > > > up multiple versions as "current" versions/variants of the software. > > > > nope. it is true. apt-get will ask user to specify particular version > > if will encounter > 1 version of the same package. > > you actually just agreed with me. > > Note the "if" in your sentence. > > pkg-get does this too, of course: if it finds multiple versions of the > "same" softwarename on a site, it will ask you which one you actually > want. Note to others, though; "gcc3" and "gcc4" are technically "different" > software, from a package management point of view, both from apt-get, and > pkg-get's view.
yep. you are right. All I wanted to say is that specific version could be requested *if* repository has one. There are 2 ways to deliver multiple versions of the same package: a) via multiple APTs; b) keeping debdelta's at APT. (b) is actually better option since APT repository could be presented as SCM with checkpoints, and APT users could upgrade/downgrade to particular version without need to play around with sources.list and reducing networking load. Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
