Re: Bug#65438: apt: "should I get this package" algorithm is wrong
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:25:03PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, dwitch wrote:
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> > What apt does, when one of the dists is active in apt.conf, and
> > anacron is in sync with this dist, and I switch to the other dist, is
> > "upgrading" to the one in the other dist. It works both ways, so I
>
> APT can sense the two files are different but does not know which should
> be newer, it assumes that the last one it reads (ie the first in
> sources.list) is the newest version and always installs that.
Well, OK, but I'd prefer if there was a warning in such a case. Finding out
what the problem was was somewhat painful, and I can't think of a package
repository purposely using such a versionning scheme...
Is there any reason not to warn the user by default ?
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