Tiziano Müller wrote:
... and package managers which don't do that already still fail.
To put everything in perspective all this discussion is done in order to workaround the issue of an old and outdated package manager that cannot be upgraded once it syncs from a too new repository.
The simplest way is to change the syncpoint in the new package manager and leave the previous uri with a compatibility repo for the older ones.
lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
