On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:45:53AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find.
> > You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use
> > --dummy-run to do a dummy run).
> I didn't know about --dummy-run. I just searched man apt-get and man dpkg
> and neither contains the word 'dummy'. I'll give that a shot.
Umm.. Perhaps it's --dry-run. There's a whole bunch of synonyms.
> I agree that the source of the problem is with the alternate packagers,
> Helix and tdyc. They could very easily fix the problem by changing the
> names of their packages, possibly by making helix/tdyc part of the
> package names (rather than, in Helix's case, part of the package
> version). However, the rest of us cannot control their activities,
> nor those of debian.org.
Having a workaround in apt would only fix part of the problem. Once
you've got them onto the system you still have the same problem
(packages claiming to be things they aren't) but you've lost the source
information.
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