Try KDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-14 23:36:09 -0400]: > Lets say I have two lines in sources.list that are almost identical > expect for the http sites are different. And now I issue a "apt-get > update", and site1 tells apt "the latest version of testing/vim is 1.3", > while site2, which may not be up to date, tells apt "the latest version > of testing/vim is 1.2".
Actually it is more like this. The Packages file at Site1 says the newest version on site1 is 1.2. The Packages file at Site2 says the newest version on site1 is 1.3. This is slightly different than saying that the newest version anywhere is 1.2. > So now what apt is supposed to do? APT does this. Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done It sorts out the newest versions and the dependencies. When you install vim it will try to install the newest version that it can successfully install plus the required dependencies that the package says it needs. If it can't install it you might like to have it fall back to one it can install, but that is beyond the code right now and in that case it will simply fail and tell you why. Bob
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