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 now >> but then, instead of picking the top one, pick the first one >> fullfilling the version requirement. This could be foo=2.0-5. > > That sounds sensible. > >> 2) >> >> apt-get install foo >> >> and foo Depends: bar (>= 1.2-3) >> >> Install bar >= 1.2-3 even if it is not the top candidate. This should >> be just like >> >> apt-get install foo bar (>= 1.2-3) > > Without further precautions, this would make life harder for people who > currently use pinning. If a package is broken, because it depends on > stuff only in experimental, it would just install the experimental > version, but I'd rather have a warning here. > > Regards, Frank
Install the necessary version even if it's not the top choice, but only if the priority is higher than a given threshold (say 50). Then normal users get experimental pinned at 1 as it is now, but the experimental autobuilders get experimental pinned at 51 using /etc/apt/preferences. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
