On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 07:09:56PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > "Tracking: keep" will keep old files around, even after they are > deleted. (That's just the files in the pool, no Packages file with > them, so not apt-getable). > > What is currently missing is a way to have older versions of a package > listed in a distribution's Packages file. (or multiple of them in an > other Packages file). > > This is mostly by my lack of what would be actually usefull and how to > implement them. So sending in some suggestions what to keep and how they > should be accessbile might help to get them sooner.
I would want to have a repository behave similiar to a directory that has simply run apt-ftparchive inside it. apt-ftparchive just dumps all packages it finds into a single Package file, and the client side can handle this: apt-get will automatically select the version with the highest version number (allowing older packages to be selected with a =version suffix), and aptitude will offer all versions to be manually selected by defaulting on the latest as well. A possible reprepro interface would be to have a conf/distributions option that changes reprepro's behavior so that packages are not automatically removed when they are superseded, but remain in the distribution until their manual removal. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
