Re: A tool for tracking masked updates to stable packages

2008-08-23 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:59:32AM +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote: Marcin Owsiany wrote: | - making local changes to the official version. In this case, the most |reliable way is to make the version string sort as older than the |official one (using the tilde feature of dpkg) and

Re: A tool for tracking masked updates to stable packages

2008-08-13 Thread Frans Pop
Marcin Owsiany wrote: I've just started to do research in order to write a tool which I was always missing. What I have so far is just a brief background information, explaining the problem - see below. I agree that this is a missing feature ATM: to be able to see at a glance which packages

Re: A tool for tracking masked updates to stable packages

2008-08-13 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 14 August 2008 03:00, Frans Pop wrote: Marcin Owsiany wrote: I've just started to do research in order to write a tool which I was always missing. What I have so far is just a brief background information, explaining the problem - see below. I agree that this is a missing

Re: A tool for tracking masked updates to stable packages

2008-08-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marcin Owsiany] I thought it might be good to ask here if I'm not trying to reinvent something that already exists. Or maybe someone has some ideas about this issue? One idea that occured to me, was to use the information collected by popularity-contest to see how many are using backported

Re: A tool for tracking masked updates to stable packages

2008-08-10 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Hello, Marcin Owsiany wrote: | - making local changes to the official version. In this case, the most |reliable way is to make the version string sort as older than the |official one (using the tilde feature of dpkg) and force |installation of such package using pinning. (The

Re: A tool for tracking masked updates to stable packages

2008-08-10 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 10/08/08 at 09:42 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Marcin Owsiany] I thought it might be good to ask here if I'm not trying to reinvent something that already exists. Or maybe someone has some ideas about this issue? One idea that occured to me, was to use the information collected

A tool for tracking masked updates to stable packages

2008-08-09 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi, I've just started to do research in order to write a tool which I was always missing. What I have so far is just a brief background information, explaining the problem - see below. I thought it might be good to ask here if I'm not trying to reinvent something that already exists. Or maybe