Hi Mike, Am Di., 20. Nov. 2018 um 10:07 Uhr schrieb Mike Gabriel <[email protected]>: > > Hi Uli, > > On Mo 19 Nov 2018 16:19:47 CET, Ulrich Sibiller wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 4:05 PM Mike Gabriel > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Control: close -1 > >> Control: tags -1 not-a-bug > >> > >> Hi Jens, > >> > >> On Mo 19 Nov 2018 14:26:41 CET, Jens Reyer wrote: > >> > >> > $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/x2go-ppa > >> > Package: * > >> > Pin: release o=LP-PPA-x2go > >> > Pin-Priority: 1010 > >> > >> This is exactly the way to do it. > >> > >> Closing this bug as a not-a-bug report. > > > > I don't really get it. What is the sense in adding a ppa to your > > system when you need additional steps to get the packages from there!? > > This is counter-intuitive! If a user adds the ppa he/she/it states > > his/her/its will to use packages from there, so why ignoring that user > > wish? > > > > Uli > > It is a versioning topic. As long as we have not released a new > upstream version, the nx-libs nightly packages we built for Arctica / > X2Go are always strictly below the released package versions > officially shipped in the distro. > > So, you need to enforce that the nightly builds are preferred over the > distro's nx-libs. This is wanted (by me). > > And yes, it is counter intuitive for PPAs. This results from X2Go's > nx-libs 3.6.x branch simply being synced over from Github.
Then maybe this can be documented on (at least) this page (including the apt preferences snippet): https://launchpad.net/~x2go/+archive/ubuntu/ppa Greets and thanks again jre _______________________________________________ x2go-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-dev
