Jon Turney writes:
> The current default package retention policy is: the curr and test
> versions are always kept, also keep the 3 highest versions (this is
> slightly more generous than upset's historical behaviour, as it keeps
> 3 versions even if test isn't being used)
Is there any pressing
On 09/10/2017 20:32, Jon Turney wrote:
So, thinking about this change some more, I realize that there is a
another way to do this, which doesn't break backwards compatibility with
setup, by having multiple [prev] and [test] sections.
[1] doesn't say that these section names are unique, and
setup to parse more than 3 versions from the
setup.ini file
This recognizes any "[foo]" line as introducing the information for another
version, which doesn't have one of the trust levels [curr], [prev] or
[test], and so isn't automatically selected when setup is told to inst
On Dec 6 17:21, Jon Turney wrote:
> From 35ecf968425762c72076059464dfb6c8b21a9331 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jon Turney <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:31:22 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH setup] Allow setup to parse more than 3 versions from the
TCH setup] Allow setup to parse more than 3 versions from the
setup.ini file
This recognizes any "[foo]" line as introducing the information for another
version, which doesn't have one of the trust levels [curr], [prev] or
[test], and so isn't automatically selected when setup is to
On 08/06/2015 14:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jun 3 17:30, Jon TURNEY wrote:
Reminded by a recent request as to how to install xorg-server-1.17.1-2, which
has disappeared beyond setup's ken (in order to determine if there was a
regression in the curent version), this is a re-send of a patch
Corinna Vinschen writes:
I'm not against adding some functionality along these lines (provided
you also fix upset), but I'm not so sure about the broad definition of
the version state pattern. It feels as generating problems down the
road. Think setup.hint. Your patch would requite to
On Jun 3 17:30, Jon TURNEY wrote:
Reminded by a recent request as to how to install xorg-server-1.17.1-2, which
has disappeared beyond setup's ken (in order to determine if there was a
regression in the curent version), this is a re-send of a patch I originally
submitted back in 2011 [1],
Reminded by a recent request as to how to install xorg-server-1.17.1-2, which
has disappeared beyond setup's ken (in order to determine if there was a
regression in the curent version), this is a re-send of a patch I originally
submitted back in 2011 [1], which received an ambiguous response then.
