On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:27:48 +0100 David Paleino <d.pale...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > dunno about other package formats but I suppose they have similar > > mechanisms. I have no problem with that, it's obviously doable, > > just thought I'd mention it in case someone didn't think of it. > > I already thought at that. Do other distributions have mechanisms to > handle this? RPM is ok, Deb is ok -- what about Gentoo's/Exherbo's > ebuilds? We don't really have the same sort of mechanism -- we tend to try to have our package versions match the upstream version as much as possible. I think the way this was handled in Gentoo, when Wine made the same transition from date-based releases to numbered ones, was to do what is called a 'package.mask' at some point, basically telling users' package managers the the old, date-based versions are no longer suitable for use -- they would then simply see the new numbered version ones as best available version, and install them instead. So, it's doable, just a bit icky. There might be a slightly cleaner way to handle this, but I'm unsure of it right now. -- Mike Kelly _______________________________________________ Bash-completion-devel mailing list Bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/bash-completion-devel