Re: versioned dependencies broken?

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:59:44PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > I'm using versioned dependencies to select an older package that the
> > newest in the repo, but I'm hitting a bug in apt.
> ...
> > According to the debug log it looks like apt ignores the explictly
> > versioned dependency. If the dependency is entered on the command line
> > with install python-devel=2.3.4 it works.
> 
> It's not a bug, apt simply was never designed to do what you expect it to 
> do in this case

Well, a bug nonetheless, as I'm not trying to do anything apt
specific, just using plain rpm semantics :)

> (unlike smartpm which can handle this), see Jason's comment in the
> thread starting here:
> http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/pipermail/apt-rpm/2004-January/002199.html

Wow, I even commented on this thread. Funny how the memory cells die
out when you get older ... ;)

I'll find a workaround until I switch my buildsystem to smart.
Thanks for "refreshing" my memory :)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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