AW: apt-get install refuses to installs older versions of dependencies

2019-07-01 Thread Fabian peter Hammerle
Hi David, > Presumably by employing the same method that linux-image uses: > by moving/copying the version number into the packages' names, > foo-1 and foo-2. Thanks for your suggestion We are using CI/CD pipelines that deploy multiple versions / debian packages per day. So appending version

AW: apt-get install refuses to installs older versions of dependencies

2019-07-01 Thread Fabian peter Hammerle
Hi Tomás, Thank you very much for suggesting `--allow-downgrades` and your additional explanations. Unfortunately, I get the same error as before: ``` $ sudo apt-get install --allow-downgrades foo=1.0.0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information...

apt-get install refuses to installs older versions of dependencies

2019-07-01 Thread Fabian peter Hammerle
Dear Debian Users, I set up an APT repository containing 2 packages: foo and bar The repository contains 2 versions of foo: 1.0.0 and 2.0.0 and 2 versions of bar: 3.0.0 and 4.0.0 foo 1.0.0 depends on bar 3.0.0 foo 2.0.0 depends on bar 4.0.0 I can easily install the latest version of foo via