Fedora needs more evangelism for repositories
Michael Schwendt
fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Tue Jun 29 21:34:00 UTC 2004
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:39:54 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > What do you do if another package was prepared for and tested with the
> > newer version of mplayer?
> >
> > Example: repo A (priority), repo B
> >
> > "libfoo 1.0" is from repo A
> > "libfoo 1.1rc2" is from repo B
> >
> > "bar" from repo A was built and tested with libfoo 1.0 from repo A
> > "baz" from repo B was built with libfoo 1.1rc2 from repo B
> >
> > You install "bar + libfoo 1.0" from repo A, the higher libfoo 1.1rc2 is
> > ignored due to prioritized Apt-pinning.
> >
> > What happens if you want to install "baz"?
>
> I pretty much aviod that by using priorities above 1000 which will
> install a package from a repository even if it is a downgrade.
Exactly that is the problem. Or you haven't understood my example yet.
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