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Re: epochs, circular dependancies, and other miscellany



Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> * epochs not being recognized.  A concrete example is
> provided by a test case I did with cvs; for brevity we'll call it cvs_V
> instead of cvs_1.10.7-1.99.slink.y2k.1.  I broke it into two packages,
> cvs_5:V and local-config-base-cvs_V-0.  When I did a 
>   dpkg --purge cvs; apt-get update; apt-get install cvs
> it would retrieve whichever cvs (cvs_V or cvs_5:V) was in the ftp
> repository listed first in sources.list.  Moreover, the retrieved file
> doesn't have the epoch prefix.  Clearly I've misunderstood the
> functionning of epochs or apt-get; can someone enlighten me?

Ignoring the larger context of your message, cvs in frozen can already be
installed noninteractively. Just configure debconf to use the
noninteractive frontend..

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