Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 30 Aug 2000, Alex Romosan wrote: > > > can we please, please reverse the behaviour, or at least make it > > configurable in /etc/apt/apt.conf, something like PreferLocal "yes". > > if there is such an option and i missed it, please point it out to me. > > Come up with a reasonable situation where you would want to have a > non-held package not be moved to the archive version of the same version > but be moved to the newer archive version :> >
if a new version becomes available, i don't mind upgrading. i just don't want apt to "upgrade" to the archive package if the packages have the same version. i think the ability to set this as a configuration option is best. as for a reasonable situation... let's say i want to compile some packages with pentium optimizations on, but if there is a new version i would like to upgrade automatically. now dselect tells me there is a new version, but if i use apt-get upgrade i won't even know the new version exists. i don't know if you consider the above situation reasonable, but for me it is. this is why i would like to be able to change the current behaviour with an option in apt.conf. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
