On 05/12/17 05:23 PM, Gordon Ross wrote:
Well, the point really is this. I can (still), outside of IPS
go grab the Python 2.6 packages from the repo server
and install them and they work [1]. Why should the
packaging system go out of it's way to prevent that?
Instead, IPS says "you _must_ remove this"
(because the package was marked obsolete).
The policy is: This is obsolete so you can't install it.
A more helpful policy might look like:
We're going to remove this for you, but if you like
you can still go install it by it's explicit version...
(or something like that).
The policy is exactly this. You can pkg freeze some versions.
In theory you can even install package pointing at exact version before
it was marked Obsolete. I say "in theory", because on practice
all old software versions are periodically cleaned up from /hipster
repository to keep its size sane (otherwise IPS starts consuming too
much resources).
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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