Rob Weir wrote: > Not to interdict in this rather pointless discussion, but package names > basically serve as the 'primary key' within the Debian archive. If you > start uploading packages with the exact same name, but have some other > header that differs, you need to modify most everything that touches > Debian packages, from the archive system to the build tools to dpkg, apt > and every Frontenac ever created. > > Oh, and then you need to provide some field to let me distinguish which > one I want to install...;-) Actually, apt already uses a set of two primary keys for dealing with packages -- name and version. I'll bet it could adapt pretty easily -- after all, it supports rpm too, which uses just such a two keyed system. Does anyone know how apt for rpm handles upgrades; does it always get rpm to remove the old version when upgrading (rpm -U), or can it somehow work out when the user wants to keep tro version installed and do so (rpm -i)? -- see shy jo
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