TSL-2.2 Contrib to be merged with TSL-2.2 Community

[Christian Haugan Toldnes]

(May 31 2005 21:22) Olaf Rempel wrote:
> 
> Is there a mechanism to protect official packages not to be "overruled" by
> newer contrib packages with same name? e.g.:
> 
> "iptables-1.31-1tr" installed from tsl, when someone uploads
> "iptables-1.31-2tr" or even "iptables-1.40-1tr" (don't panic, not
> released yet) to contrib, everybody would update?!
> 
> hmm, or is it save, since the class is different?
> (btw. we have 3 versions of bittorrent in tsl/contrib/community :)

It is safe, exactly because of the class system.

If a package with the same name was found in a repository with lower
class, the package in the repository with higher class is simply
ignored.

If a package requires the newer version, it will still not get included.



kind regards

c

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Christian H. Toldnes
Trustix Developer