On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:50:02PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:29:33PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Is the problem that you use apt-get to install the current version, and > > then check what you got? Because you can't tell apt-get to install > > at least version X else fail? > > Yes, that's how it works currently. > > Since this also makes autobuilding experimental harder, work is being > done to use ``apt-cache policy'' output to determine whether the right > version of a package is available and break off if not, but it's still > got some bugs (including situations where the build is broken off > because sbuild (incorrectly) thinks the right version of a package isn't > available).
Thanks for the explanation Wouter. That sounds like a big improvement. By the way, does this duplicate the functionality of 'apt-get build-dep'? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]