* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050222 15:15]: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:29:33PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >> Is the problem that you use apt-get to install the current version, and > >> then check what you got? Because you can't tell apt-get to install > >> at least version X else fail?
> > Yes, that's how it works currently. > > > > Since this also makes autobuilding experimental harder, work is being > > done to use ``apt-cache policy'' output to determine whether the right > > version of a package is available and break off if not, but it's still > > got some bugs (including situations where the build is broken off > > because sbuild (incorrectly) thinks the right version of a package isn't > > available). > apt-get build-dep should be improved to be buildd useable > instead. It's is wastefull to have two seperate and differently buggy > implementations floating around. It would be definitly a good idea to improve apt-get build-dep, and make sbuild using a solution based on apt. But, I'm not going to hold my breath for that to happen. :) And, as always, patches welcome. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
