Thanks again for looking at this..

2009/6/4 Sebastian Harl <s...@tokkee.org>

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 03:37:51PM +0100, Matthew Exley wrote:
> > Now, should I have egg on my face for missing it, or should the
> dependencies
> > for rrdtool have sorted that out for me?
> >
> > I note rrdtool only has:
> >  librrd4 (>= 1.3.0)
>
> rrdtool does not _require_ a more up-to-date version of librrd4.


Understood. (Seems odd to me that they're not in lockstep, but I'm not
questioning it)


> > (I did "apt-get -u install rrdtool" to upgrade, and that's normally
> pretty
> > good at pulling in dependencies).
>
> Do you use pinning or something similar? Letting aside dependencies, the
> new version should have been pulled in because of the higher version
> number.
>

I did mention I did a single-package install. I'm sure an "apt-get upgrade"
would have dragged it in, but I didn't do that. Your explanation above about
not  *requiring* an upgrade explains the behaviour adequately, I think.

Cheers,

-- 
Matthew Exley
hen...@guided-naafi.org

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