On 02/07/12 16:13, Steve Roylance wrote:
On 07/02/2012 01:58 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote:
Nope, I'm after having multiple versions in the same suite. I only really need, say, at most six versions, so I could create multiple repositories and then set something up so that when a file is replaced, it shuffles the to-be-deleted package over to the next repository in the chain, who will do the same..
..but christ, there HAS to be a proper solution rather than that! hi
in rpm/yum systems there have been some packages where the version no. is rolled into the package name giving "package-1.2" as the package and then attaching a version numbered onto it.
VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.16_78094_rhel6-1.x86_64.rpm being the prime example of this.
Debian's system supports a similar concept, but I'd like to avoid it, as it breaks automatic upgrades. Surely it should just be possible to store several versions in a repository at once? I'm amazed this seems to be such a rare request.