Nick Cabatoff wrote: > * epochs not being recognized. A concrete example is > provided by a test case I did with cvs; for brevity we'll call it cvs_V > instead of cvs_1.10.7-1.99.slink.y2k.1. I broke it into two packages, > cvs_5:V and local-config-base-cvs_V-0. When I did a > dpkg --purge cvs; apt-get update; apt-get install cvs > it would retrieve whichever cvs (cvs_V or cvs_5:V) was in the ftp > repository listed first in sources.list. Moreover, the retrieved file > doesn't have the epoch prefix. Clearly I've misunderstood the > functionning of epochs or apt-get; can someone enlighten me?
Ignoring the larger context of your message, cvs in frozen can already be installed noninteractively. Just configure debconf to use the noninteractive frontend.. -- see shy jo
