On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:59:18 +0000 Andrew Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think we'll have issues with prefixing packages, It would > effectively kill the dependancy tree as some packages depend on a > specific version. > Ah, I had a feeling I had missed something obvious. Good catch. :) > I think we should avoid modifying version numbers / package names > wherever possible. Best would be to suffix the packages as above, but > then using APT pinning to correct the priorities for our repo. > > With Apt pinning we can esure that if we have a package by the same > name in our repo, it will always be selected as first choice for > installation, and upgrades in the lower pinned repo (ubuntu's) will be > ignored. If the package doesn't exist in ours then it'll use ubuntu's. > Funny thing is, I did look into pinning, but for some reason I dismissed it. I agree it would be much cleaner. > I'm reading up on the documentation now (it's been a while!) and i'll > let you know how I go on. > Nice one, I will hold off messing with the packages for the time being. -- Philip _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~crunchbangers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~crunchbangers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
