[haiku-depot-web] Re: Package Ordering Issue and Packages not Loading
- From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-depot-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 17:36:00 -0500
On 4 November 2016 at 21:47, Andrew Lindesay <apl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
HDS periodically (or on request) polls the repository and pulls down new
versions. It maintains records of old versions, but it does expect that
the newly loaded versions are *newer* than the old versions. [...]
On 06/11/16 04:23 PM, Jessica Hamilton wrote:
This seems like a poor assumption to make. Sometimes the "latest"
version of an app or library needs to be downgraded, due to
compatibility issues, regressions or such.
I'm working on a BeShare update for HaikuPorts, and want to downgrade the
Muscle library to version 3, while the one in the system is 6. Guess I'll
fake it with a "muscle_3" package just for downgrading to a library that's
more compatible with BeOS Beshare systems.
Actually, I see that too in the Linux world with VirtualBox_4.0 and others
up to VirtualBox_5.1 being different packages in the system, you can
install either, with bug fixes back-ported to both old and new versions.
- Alex
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