On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:18:27AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:11:49AM +0100, eric tanguy wrote:
> > > eric tanguy wrote:
> > >> What's the difference between these 2 repo ?
> > >
> > > Sorry, misread the question last time.
> > >
> > > The difference is explained at the bottom of
http://atrpms.net/
> > >
> > > Paul.
> > So if i understand well all packages from at-stable are included in
> > at-good (maybe with newer version) ?
>
> Yes, less stable repos contain all of their more stable counterparts:
>
> good contains stable
> testing contains good and stable
> bleeding contains testing, good and stable
so this means you can't have more than one version of the same piece
of software? a stable version, *and* a bleeding edge version? or am
i misreading that?
No, you can, for example a package with stable, testing and bleeding
versions:
stable: foo-1.2.3-4
testing: foo-1.2.4-5 (and foo-1.2.3-4)
bleeding: foo-2.0.0-7 (and foo-1.2.4-5, foo-1.2.3-4)
So the less stable repos contain the rpm-older more stable packages,
too.
The main reason for this setup is to have the repos self-contained,
e.g. bleeding has all dependencies it needs (some of which will be in
stable or testing), you don't have to combine with the stable or
testing repos. That was often a user error.
--
Axel.Thimm at
ATrpms.net