[pacman-dev] Versioned packages

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 09/12/16 at 09:47am, Sergey Petrenko via pacman-dev wrote:
> Should I spam kernel package maintainers then, or maybe someone will resolve bug as wontfix?

Not sure why they need to be spammed, you can easily build linux47 as a
package and install it separate from the normal linux package. But I
guess you want to automatically retain your current installed linux pkg
when you upgrade to a newer version?

> 
> 
> >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
> 
> 
> -- 
> With wish of constant improvement
> and unstoppable creativity.
> Sergey Petrenko

-- 
Jelle van der Waa
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