Re: Bits from the experimental autobuilder team (or: For Those Who Care About Experimental...)

2006-04-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [1] It might be possible to write an apt preferences file to fix this problem differently, but not doing that actually has its advantages, in that we force maintainers to actually know what experimental package versions they're

Re: Bits from the experimental autobuilder team (or: For Those Who Care About Experimental...)

2006-04-18 Thread Frank Küster
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking more of extending the capabilities of apt itself for 2 cases: 1) apt-get install foo (= 1.2-3) or apt-get install foo=1.2-3 Sort the known versions of foo according to pin and version like now but then, instead of picking the

Re: Bits from the experimental autobuilder team (or: For Those Who Care About Experimental...)

2006-04-18 Thread Ken Bloom
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking more of extending the capabilities of apt itself for 2 cases: 1) apt-get install foo (= 1.2-3) or apt-get install foo=1.2-3 Sort the known versions of foo according to pin and version like

Re: Bits from the experimental autobuilder team (or: For Those Who Care About Experimental...)

2006-04-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:28:27PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Hello World, As many of you undoubtedly know, experimental is autobuilt these days. ... However, it will only work if the build-dependencies are fully specified; i.e., if a package 'foo' in experimental requires another