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On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:50:58 +0200 |
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Amadeusz Żołnowski <aidecoe@g.o> wrote: |
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> > It's thus much better to use REPLACING_VERSIONS (which is plural, |
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> > and this is important) rather than has_version, if you're asking |
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> > about the current package rather than another package. |
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> Right. Thanks. REPLACING_VERSIONS and REPLACED_BY_VERSION is much |
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> better, but for older EAPIs couldn't one set it manually with help of |
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> has_version in pkg_setup and check that var later in postinst?. |
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One could, but one probably shouldn't, unless one is familiar with |
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the exact rules for env saving with binary packages... We added |
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REPLACING_VERSIONS to make this kind of thing easy. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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