Re: SRC or UPD?

2004-09-23 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004, David M. Fetter wrote: How do you determine whether an update goes into the SRC area or the UPD area? I was reading through the release engineering stuff but it doesn't say anything about that. It is very simple: X.Y.0 packages go into SRC because they form the official

Re: SRC or UPD?

2004-09-23 Thread Michael van Elst
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:55:59PM -0700, David M. Fetter wrote: For the build tool to upgrade is to replace the installed version of a package with a version from the repository. It first determines the 'newest' version in the repository and then tries to install it, independent on what

Re: SRC or UPD?

2004-09-23 Thread David M. Fetter
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 14:56, Michael van Elst wrote: All what I said so far is only valid for packages that you pass to the build tool as an argument. In case of dependent packages the version of the installed package should be honored unless you use the -e option. Is it -e or -E? I have