Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15 Feb 2008, at 11:57 pm, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > >> Their only other major flaw that I'm aware of, is that, just like all >> the rpm based tools, you can only have one single version of a binary >> package installed at a time (yuck!). > > That's not true. Look at the gcc or emacs packages. Or automake. Or > autoconf. Many, many versions, all of which can coexist on your > system at the same time, and you can use update-alternatives to choose > which one is the default. The trick is that the packages have to have > different names, so in the case of gcc there are gcc-3.3, gcc-3.4, > gcc-4.1 etc.
But that's not the same package, then. Hm, can you have a package depend on "any version of gcc", without listing the various gcc packages explicitly? Andrew, which tools don't let you have more than one version of an rpm installed? -- Leif Nixon - Systems expert ------------------------------------------------------------ National Supercomputer Centre - Linkoping University ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
