"Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > Sven Luther: > >> No the real solution to this is to have the archive software accept >> multiple copies of a same package, and not remove the older arch:all >> packages when there are still arch:any package from the same source >> package in the archive. > > But the original problem (from debian-gtk-gnome) wasn't that the archive > deletes the older versions (it doesn't), but that the client-side > program wants the *newest* versions of packages.
Which is true but not the problem at all. > gnome-applets-data_2.8.1.1-3_all.deb was in the archive when > gnome-applets_2.8.1.1-3_ia64.deb was the newest gnome-applets > for ia64, but gnome-applets-data_2.8.1.1-4_all.deb was there *already*, > and so apt didn't want to get the older, -3 gnome-applets-data. The question is no what is in the archive but what is listed in the Packages file (as the highest version but there is always only one in Debian). > gnome-applets and gnome-applets-data must be the same version, but > from the ia64's point of view the newest gnome-applets was -3 and > the newest gnome-applets-data was -4. It's apt who should have requested > gnome-applets-data -3 istead of breaking. Archive was ok all the time. The newest and the only one in that distribution. 'apt-get install gnome-applets-data=2.8.1.1-3' would not have worked. > Cheers, > -- Shot > -- > The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. -- Solomon Short > ================================================ http://shot.pl/hovercraft/ > === MfG Goswin
