[pacman-dev] Versioned packages

[Sergey Petrenko]

Should I spam kernel package maintainers then, or maybe someone will resolve bug as wontfix?


>Суббота, 10 сентября 2016, 0:58 +03:00 от Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
>
>On 10/09/16 08:41, Sergey Petrenko via pacman-dev wrote:
>> Here is my attempt to solve seven years old infamous problem:
>>  https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16702
>> 
>> Patch won't solve problem out of the box, a small changes in kernel PKGBUILD
>> will be required, but only concerning install part.
>> 
>> Idea behind patch is pretty simple:
>> 1) Configure list of packages and number of old versions pacman should try 
>> to preserve.
>> 2) When upgading to new version, keep old in place, if it has no file 
>> conflicts with new one, and mark it as `archived`, remove oldest `archived` 
>> version instead.
>> 
>> Most of time pacman treats `archived` packages as if they aren't installed.
>> For now it won't check package conflicts and dependencies, only file conflicts 
>> with newer versions. It's only an outline of full solution, proof of concept 
>> to illustrate the idea.
>> 
>> I'd like to hear opinion of community whether this problem should be solved 
>> at all, or is it more like a feature of ArchLinux, and if it should, whether
>> such approach suits ArchLinux's philosophy.
>> 
>
>How is this better than having a package file sitting in the cache?
>
>The "kernel problem" in Arch is not because it is not possible to have
>multiple kernel packages available.  Other distributions provide endless
>amounts of kernels (e.g. Manjaro).
>
>I don't see anything that needs done on the package manager end for this.
>
>Allan


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